A Saudi mother who ran amok trying to put out a fire that swept into her second floor apartment finally jumped down, leaving her two little daughters charred to death.
Her five-year-old son was later rescued by firemen.
The mother screamed and tried in vain to fight the blaze which spread through the flat.
Apparently giving up, she jumped down to safety.
Firemen who arrived later pulled out her five-year-old son who suffered from medium injuries while her two daughters, aged two years and six months, were plucked dead after they were killed by the fire and smoke.
'Sabq' Arabic language newspaper quoted police sources as saying the fire, which erupted at the apartment in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah late night, could have been caused by an electric failure.
Two boys rape another boy
Two teenage boys will spend an unspecified time at a juvenile delinquency centre on orders by the country’s top court after they were found guilty of raping another boy.
One of them, an expatriate, will also be deported.
The Supreme Federal Court upheld previous verdicts by two courts and sentenced to the two to detention at a delinquency centre for rehabilitation.
The court did not specify the period of time they will be locked up but said they could be released when they “are corrected.”The court rejected argument by their lawyer that there was no concrete evidence the two had raped the other boy.
It said a police report submitted to court contained sufficient proof of the rape.In its report, the Dubai-based Arabic language daily
'Emarat Al Youm' said the court ordered the deportation of the one of the defendants as he is an expatriate. It gave no details of the rape case.
Woman seeks divorce from 'ill-reputed' husband
An Arab woman begged court to divorce her from her Arab husband, saying she had been demoralised by his bad reputation.
The woman told the court in Ajman that her husband had been involved in 30 court cases and that he does not care for his wife and children.“I have been morally and psychologically harmed by his behavior and his bad reputation…every one talks about him in a bad way,” she told the judge.
“This is negatively impacting me and my children…I just do no longer want my name to be associated with his name.”