Boy stabs tailor for speaking to mum

A 16-year-old Saudi boy stabbed an Indian tailor with a scissors after he saw her mother speaking to him without the veil on her face.

The boy was walking with friends past the tailor's shop in the eastern Qatif province when he saw his mother inside without her face veil.

"He was embarrassed when his friends made comments…he rushed inside the shop, grabbed a scissors and stabbed the Indian," Sada newspaper said.

"The mother blamed her son for the incident on the grounds the man is just an Indian tailor who does not understand anything."

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