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19 March 2024

Girl killed by 5-year-old brother by accident

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A five-year-old Saudi boy shot dead his teen age sister while he was tampering with his father’s gun in in the Gulf Kingdom.

The 16-year-old girl was rushed to hospital by her elder brother but died on arrival after the bullet struck her in the chest.

Police are investigating the incident at the family’s house in the northwestern town of Hail, Kabar newspaper reported.
 
8-year-old boy fined for stoning man

A court in Saudi Arabia fined an eight-year-old boy SR2,400 (Dh2,370) for causing head injury to a civil servant after throwing a stone at him by accident, a newspaper in the Gulf Kingdom reported on Monday.

The boy was playing with his friends near his house in the western town of Makkah when the man passed by.

A rock hit his head by accident, causing it to bleed. After he was treated at hospital, he went straight to court.

"The man rebuffed all mediation efforts and went ahead with his court suit…the boy’s father asked the judge to give him until the end of the month so he will get his salary and pay the fine,” Kabar Arabic language daily said.

Man who claimed attacked by two attempted suicide

Saudi police dismissed claims by an Arab man that two assailant slit his throat at his apartment, accusing him of doing it himself in an apparent suicide attempt, a newspaper reported on Monday.

The man had told investigators at hospital that two black men knocked at his apartment’s door and jumped on him before slitting his throat and hand’s veins. He claimed that they also stabbed him in the stomach before fleeing.

The man, a butcher, was found bleeding heavily by a friend who happened to be visiting his flat in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah.

Doctors raced against time to save the man’s life after he lost much blood. Following a series of surgeries to restore his throat, he survived.

Police said they had investigated the man by letting him write a statement as he could not talk because of his throat injury.

“He said two black man attacked him but he did not know them…he said he had received threats from a mobile phone in the previous two days.”

But two days after the incident, police decided the attack version was fabricated by the man and that he attempted a suicide after he could not marry the girl he loves because of her family’s opposition.

“Our investigations showed the a suicide attempt was likely…this man is a butcher and he apparently used his experience in handling knife to slaughter himself,” Okaz daily said, quoting police spokesman Brigadier Musfir Juaid.

“There were no signs of any theft in the apartment nor did residents in the building hear any noise or screams for help during the presumed attack…we believe he tried to kill himself because of emotional problems.”

Juaid said the man, who was still in hospital for more operations, had phoned his family before the incident and told them he would go to hospital.

“He made that call before the incident and this supports our belief that he planned to commit a suicide.”

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