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Articles of the author Okaz AL QUNFUDHA
Engineers to inspect hospital's power system
Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeah, Minister of Health, has issued instructions assigning a team of engineers from the ministry and Jeddah Health Affairs to inspect Al-Qunfudha General Hospital's electrical system in the wake of power disruptions there. ?The (...)

02 - 10 - 2011
Qunfudha residents to get 484 plots of land
The land grant plan, suspended for the last 14 years as a result of some individuals' objections and claims to the real estate, has been restored and accordingly 484 plots of lands will be given to the residents here. The restoration of the (...)

10 - 09 - 2011
Archeologists want ancient Turkish ships retrieved from ocean
A group of archeologists in the Kingdom have appealed for help to salvage three Turkish warships which were sunk off the Al-Qunfudha coast a century ago by Italian battleships, according to a report in Al-Watan Arabic newspaper. The experts said (...)

06 - 08 - 2011
New dam sparks village flood fears
Residents of Malihat Al-Murawaha in Mahayial Asir are concerned that their village could be flooded by rising groundwater resulting from the building of the Wadi Hali Dam. “Our homes run alongside the reserve basin, and measures need to be taken to (...)

29 - 09 - 2010
Pipes and visits give araq game away
Pipes protruding from the walls of a house and frequent nocturnal visits from unknown persons led to the arrest of one person on Saturday for producing and selling the alcoholic beverage araq. Neighbors informed the police of suspicious activities (...)

22 - 03 - 2010
Couple confesses to fake row robberies
A man and wife have confessed to at least two thefts of jewelry stores by staging marital rows to distract the attention of shop assistants. Police heard how the couple entered a store in Al-Qunfudha and asked to see a gold belt before staging an (...)

16 - 03 - 2010
Compensation ‘insufficient'
Owners of flood-damaged property are demanding a reassessment of compensation packages they say do not reflect current land values and are growing exasperated at the lack of transparency in compensation assessment procedures and confusion over (...)

15 - 03 - 2010
Pupil burnt in cigarette blaze
A secondary school pupil who sneaked out of class for a crafty smoke ended up with burns to his arms and face when the car he been hiding behind caught fire from his cigarette. The pupil had chosen his smoking place next to the vehicle of a fellow (...)

03 - 03 - 2010
Farm worker dies in field
Police say that there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a Bangladeshi man whose body was found lying in a field at a farm in the region of Hali Saturday morning. Police were alerted by work colleagues discovered the body of (...)

01 - 03 - 2010
Wanted man caught posing as official
Police have detained a man in his thirties accused of impersonating an official from the Mayor's Office in order to steal telephone SIM cards from shops. The man reportedly entered a shop in Hail in the south of Al-Qunfudha waving official (...)

16 - 02 - 2010
Search divers find fisherman's body
Search divers recovered on Sunday the body of a Saudi fisherman from the sea floor at Ras Muhaisan, 75 km to the north of Al-Qunfudha. Fisherman Saleh Al-Masoudi had been reported missing by relatives when he failed to return from a fishing trip and (...)

16 - 02 - 2010
Market pickpockets prey on old ladies
A six-member gang of pickpockets that preyed on old ladies in a market in Al-Qawz to the south of Al-Qunfudha were arrested Sunday and found to be carrying 7,000 riyals, allegedly the result of a single day's thieving. Police said the six, who were (...)

24 - 11 - 2009
SR299,000 for a bird
A Saudi man has sold a falcon he found in the wilderness for the sum of SR299,000, or nearly $80,000. Sa'eed Al-Huweiti, from the village of Al-Musa'adiya to the north of Al-Qunfudha, said he came across the bird on a hunting trip to the region's (...)

11 - 11 - 2009
Camel kills, donkey injures
An elderly man was killed by a kick to the head from one of his camels as he entered their pen to feed them Friday morning. The camel owner in the town of Al-Haila south of Al-Qunfudha was reportedly rushed to hospital by his family but died shortly (...)

26 - 10 - 2009
Cutters and dropping give away sheep thieves
A gang of four sheep thieves was arrested Wednesday when officials at a checkpoint noticed their pick-up truck showing signs of animal droppings and containing cutting tools. The gang later confessed to stealing sheep from farm enclosures and (...)

10 - 09 - 2009
Frivolous action causes student's death
A secondary school student jesting with his colleague in Al-Mutahamah village, 20 km northeast of Al-Qunfuda Governorate, led to a head-on collision between their cars and the death of the former on the spot. The driver and his companion were (...)

06 - 09 - 2009
Septuagenarian's body recovered
Search teams recovered Sunday the body of an elderly man who reportedly drowned in a small lake at a farm in Wadi Hali. Police believe the 73-year-old man to have died when flood waters passing through the valley swept him away as he attempted to (...)

01 - 09 - 2009
Young man dressed up for the arrest
A young man was found to have been responsible for the theft of jewelry and gold worth SR25,000 from the house of a local teacher after police spotted him attired in an unusually exorbitant fashion. Police were called to the scene of the crime (...)

15 - 07 - 2009
Sneeze blows cover of 42 ‘immigrants'
A Somali driver hiding 42 illegal immigrants in his truck was given away during a police inspection by a sneeze from inside the vehicle. Police asked to see the man's identity papers when his behavior at a petrol station raised their suspicions, (...)

07 - 07 - 2009
Child starts fire, eats sweets
A family whose house went up in flames feared the worst when rescue teams were unable to locate their four-year-old child among the smoke and flames. Once the fire had been extinguished, however, the child was found to be sitting on the roof of the (...)

21 - 06 - 2009
3 blackmailers held by Hai'a
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai'a) has arrested three youths who tried to blackmail a university student after one of them obtained photographs of her and gave copies to his friends. The three reportedly made (...)

30 - 05 - 2009
Snake bite forces man out of the woods
Police conducting a pursuit in Wadi Hali of numerous persons who had entered the Kingdom illegally were surprised on Thursday when one individual came sprinting out of the woods where he was hiding seeking their help. The man, who had been hiding (...)

16 - 05 - 2009
Second school fight
A second mass brawl in as many days in the south of the Kingdom led to two persons receiving hospital attention and another being detained by police. The fight at a Bisha school on Wednesday, which came only two days after another scene of violence (...)

14 - 05 - 2009
99-year-old man commits suicide
A man one year short of completing a century hanged himself in the town of Uneiker, some 40 km to the south of Al-Qunfudha. The man's body was found by his son hanging from a tree outside their house, the cloth of a headdress around his neck. (...)

12 - 03 - 2009
Errant doctor flees, probe launched
The Health Affairs Directorate has opened an investigation into the disappearance of a surgeon working at Al-Barak Hospital who was thought to be responsible for a medical error while operating on an eight-year-old child. Aamir Muhammed Al-Helali, (...)

01 - 03 - 2009
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