Saudi religious police car sprayed with liquor

Saudi religious police car sprayed with liquor

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Unknown young men waited for members of Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police to park their car near a shopping mall and sprayed it with alcoholic drinks. They then tried to smash its glass but fled at seeing the members coming.

The assailants came close to the car just as police men from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice disappeared into the mall in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah on a routine patrol.

“The assailants splashed the car with alcoholic drinks then tried to smash the windows…but they fled when they saw the Commission members coming their war after they were informed by the mall’s security,” Sabq daily said.

The paper gave no reason for the attack but the Commission has often been criticized for its tough ways in law enforcement.

Old man rejoins school after 70 years

 An ageing Saudi man decided to return to school nearly 70 years after he left classes because of what he termed as difficult living conditions.

Mohsen Khaled al Subai, 76, has just started classes at an adult education centre in the southwestern town of Raniya and his teacher said the man is punctual and is “strong commitment.”

“I returned to school because I want to read and write, especially to read the Koran,” Subai said, quoted by Sabq Arabic language daily.

“I joined class when I was six years old and left it a year later…there were no schools like how and I left because life was difficult at that time.”

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