Teen gets 2 months for attacking mom

A 25-year-old Emirati man was killed and two others were injured after their car crashed into a pick-up on Emirates Road near Umm Al Quwain because of speed, according to traffic police.

The pick-up was moving on the right lane on the road towards Ras Al Khaimah when it was rammed by the speeding four-wheel vehicle driven by an Emirati, said Major Saeed bin Aran, UAQ traffic police director.

One Emirati was killed while the driver and another one, aged 25 and 26, suffered from serious to medium injuries, he said.

“The accident occurred because of speed….the driver of the four-wheel car lost control and hit the pick up before serving off the road and overturning many times,” he told the semi official daily Alittihad.

Teen gets 2 months for attacking mom

An Abu Dhabi court sentenced an Emirati teenager to two months in prison for attacking his mother with a knife while drunk, pushing her to jump down from the first floor and suffer injuries.

The court rejected the boy’s argument that he was mad and passing through bad circumstances when he chased his mother inside their apartment with a knife after she refused to lend him her car because he was drunk.

The mother said she fled to her bedroom but her son smashed the door and chased her with the knife, adding that she had no choice but to jump from the balcony and suffer fractures in various parts of her body.

The court also fined the unnamed boy Dh2,000 and ordered him lashed 80 times for having alcohol.

Hunger exposes illegal migrant

An Asian man went into a shop in Fuejeirah and tried to snatch foodstuffs before he was caught by the grocer and handed over to the authorities. Police checking the man found that he had sneaked into the UAE illegally.

The man told police he had to go to the shop to get some food because he was hungry and had no money, Alkhaleej newspaper said.

It said a court in the emirate sentenced the man to one month in jail and ordered his deportation from the UAE.

Camel saved from drowning

Saudi civil defence men using ropes lifted a camel out of a pit filled with rain water in a weary rescue operation that lasted nearly one hour.

The camel was pasturing near a farm in the capital Riyadh when it slipped and fell into the pit which was covered by a large cement block.

Pictures published by Sabq Arabic language daily showed the humped animal was dragged out to safety after itself had struggled in vain to get out.

In one picture, the camel was seem opening its mouth widely as if to cheer safety and freedom while two civil defence men tried to untie it.

“The camel was rescued unhurt….the farm owner was made to write a statement to the police pledging to block that pit,” the paper said.
 

'Sheep theft' gang busted in RAK

Ras Al Khaimah police arrested five Arab men for stealing more than 400 sheep from local farms in just a few weeks.'

The five confessed they have performed 31 sheep burglary operations and sold the animals in Dubai and other emirates.

They told police they carried out the thefts with a four-wheel car and targeted many farms in various areas of the northern emirates.

Police seized the five after an extensive investigation triggered by repeated reports by local farmers that their sheep are disappearing at night.
 

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