Maid who never drove gets Saudi traffic ticket

A Saudi man who wanted to renew the visa of his Indonesian housemaid was surprised when he was told he must first pay a fine for a traffic offence committed by the maid, although she had never driven a car.

His surprise turned into a shock when he was handed the fine showing the maid committed the offence in  the western town of Makkah although she had never to been to that city.

He said he refused to pay the fine on the grounds his maid does not know how to drive a car and has not been out of the area where he lives.

“They stopped procedures to renew my maid’s visa and I kept  shutting between the Ministry of Labour and the traffic police until they finally admitted there was a mistake,” he told Sabq newspaper in a report from the central town of Onaiza.

Baby dies after sleeping on his face

A six-month-old Kuwaiti boy died after he turned over while asleep and lay on his face at home in the oil-rich Gulf emirate. The baby was rushed to hospital in the capital Kuwait City but was already dead,  'Al Anba' daily said.

His mother told police that she went into the baby’s bedroom and found that he was not breathing. “He accidentally turned over and was lying on his face,” the mother was reported as saying.

Dead baby found in garbage bag in Kuwait

A dead baby was found inside a garbage bag dumped on the pavement of a road in Kuwait, police have reported.

A Kuwaiti man who was walking back home stumbled across the bag and reported it to the police when he saw a little human hand stretching out of it, newspapers said, quoting police.

They said police are investigating the case but did not mention the boy’s age.

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