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29 March 2024

Child bitten by snake while asleep

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A nine-year-old Saudi girl was bitten by a poisonous snake while she was asleep at her shabby house in the Gulf Kingdom and doctors said she was still unconscious.

Amer bin Ali said he rushed his daughter to hospital in the southwestern town of Najran after the snake crawled into her room at night and bit her.

“The girl was still unconscious at the intensive care unit on Sunday night,” the Arabic language daily Sabq said, quoting doctors.

Ali said he had killed many snakes which tried to sneak into his old house in the village over the past few years, adding that he could not afford maintain the house or build another one for his 13 children.

Thieves steal loudspeakers from two Saudi mosques

Preachers at two neighbouring mosques in Saudi Arabia were shocked when they wanted to call for prayers and discovered that the loudspeakers were not there.

The two mosques in the western Saudi town of Taif appeared without loudspeakers for the first time and the preachers had thought they were under maintenance.

“It turned out that the loudspeakers had been stolen after the mosques’ doors were found broken…police are searching for the thieves,” Sabq newspaper said.