Two die as car falls from bridge: Two women were killed and three other passengers injured when a car fell from a 5.5-meter high bridge in eastern Riyadh on Friday. The accident occurred at the bridge at Exit No. 13. Civil Defense workers extricated the dead and the injured from the wreckage.
Climber boy dies in fall from cliff: A boy, 17, was killed on Thursday after he fell from the cliff of a mountain in Shifa in Taif while he was on a mountaineering trip. The boy and two friends arrived at the top of the mountain shortly before the sunset. The adventurous boys were standing on the tip of a cliff when one of them stumbled and fell on the rocks below and rolled down before finally stopping at the bottom of the abyss 50 meters below. Civil Defense personnel and residents of nearby villages had to work hard to find the body after nightfall.
Two hurt in car-truck collision: Two people were seriously injured when a car collided with a truck on the Corniche road in Al-Khafji on Thursday. After being hurled 30 meters away from the place where the speeding car first hit the pavement, it fell on the top of a truck parked on the road. While the car was split apart, the two people inside the car were thrown off the vehicle. They are now in intensive care at an Aramco hospital.
Indonesian held for killing compatriot: An Indonesian laborer, who was about to leave the country, was arrested on charges of murdering his compatriot Fuad Sawana, 22, in Jeddah recently. Tahari Jaafar, 24, reportedly quarreled and stabbed Sawana as the latter refused to return a videocassette which he had borrowed. Leaving the body at the scene of the crime Jaafar went to his sponsor and confessed to him the crime and requested him to arrange for his final exit. The sponsor immediately reported the matter to police who arrested Jaafar who was hiding among his friends in a poor neighborhood in the city.
Female hospital staff rescued from fire: More than 100 female hospital workers staying in a two-story building with hardly any safety conditions in Abha in the south of the Kingdom were rescued from a huge fire by Civil Defense early Friday morning. Eight women suffered near-suffocation. There were no emergency exits in the building with 25 rooms, which were unfit for lodging human beings, Brig. Gen. Muhammad Sharouq, acting director of Civil Defense in Asir said. The building was unlicensed, according to another official.
Customs officers fined for drug smuggling: A disciplinary committee of the Customs Department fined four Saudi employees SR213,700 for smuggling narcotic drugs into the Kingdom. Another Customs employee was fined for his links to liquor smuggling at the Salwa border checkpoint. The guilty employees have 30 days to appeal the verdict.
