JEDDAH: A 13-year-old boy is suspected of fatally stabbing his 12-year-old cousin in a fight in Jeddah’s Al-Kandarah district Tuesday night, according to a report in Al-Madinah newspaper. The victim later died at a hospital. Relatives who took the boy to the hospital initially told the doctors and police that the boy’s injury was caused when he fell on broken glass. However, the relatives had to confess to police about the fight and stabbing when the hospital report said his wounds were not caused by broken glass. Investigations are under way.
ABQAIQ: A security officer was killed and nine others injured in a traffic accident on the Abqaiq–Dhahran road, 12 kilometers east of Abqaiq on Wednesday. According to a report in Friday’s edition of Al-Watan newspaper, the accident occurred when a SUV had a head-on collision with a car carrying two soldiers traveling from their headquarters in Dammam to their camp in Al-Ahsa. The car swerved and somersaulted after the collision. Nine of the passengers and drivers in the two vehicles suffered light to critical injuries and were admitted to the emergency ward in Abqaiq General Hospital.
RIYADH: Riyadh police arrested 30 Arab and Asian expatriates for selling pornographic CDs at Haraj bin Qassim and Batha neighborhoods in Riyadh, a police source said on Thursday. The police hunted down the illegal street venders after receiving a tip-off from a local informer. They arrested 13 people in possession of 3,000 CDs. Later they arrested 17 other men who were involved in downloading and copying pornographic content from the Internet. They also seized 30,000 CDs from them. The arrested men also included people who sold decoders that could access pornographic television channels.
HAFR AL-BATEN: Police detectives caught three young men between 19 and 21 years of age for their suspected involvement in a two-week-old robbery where SR80,000 and two expensive mobile phones were taken from a Saudi citizen’s house in the Faisaliyah district in Hafr Al-Baten in the Eastern Province, Al-Shams daily reported on Friday. Detectives were told about the involvement of the three while questioning another man in connection with another theft.
SAIHAT: Civil Defense saved two elderly women, four children and a baby when a fire broke out in an apartment in a two-story building in the North Namir district in Saihat on Thursday. The rescued people suffered only light injuries. An electric short-circuit was cited as the cause of the fire. Other tenants were treated for minor breathing difficulties, Al-Yaum daily reported on Friday.
— Compiled by Arab News
