year-old man allegedly shot his stepmother dead in Barig, in the Al-Majaridah Governorate, 200 km west of Abha. The bullet hit her in the chest and she was rushed to Al-Majaridah General Hospital, where she later died. Abdullah Ayidh Al-Qarni, (...)
A woman has been arrested for allegedly selling the banned herb qat in Umm Sarar District in the Industrial Estate on Friday. On a tip off, agents of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Khamis raided the woman's home (...)
Civil Defense teams in Mahayel Asir are continuing to search for the body of a man swept away by floods. Two other bodies were found in Ain Aal Ghoraib, north of Mahayel Asir, 100 kilometers from the site where they drowned.
The spokesman for the (...)
A security guard at Mahayel Asir General Hospital was hospitalized after being beaten by three men.
The guard refused to let the men bring children inside while visiting a relative.
The guard was punched and kicked and his uniform was also torn. (...)
year-old Saudi man fell off a steep slope on Shi'ar Mountain Road and died of his injuries.
Maj. Muhammad Abdul Raheem Al-Assimi, spokesman of the Civil Defense in Asir Region, said the man reportedly rolled over the slope for about 80 meters and (...)
A youth stormed a mosque at Al-Wadiyain rural center in Ahad Rufaidah Governorate on Wednesday night during Tarawih prayers. He threatened them with an AK-47 (Kalashnikov) assault rifle.
Col. Abdullah Al-Qarni, spokesman of Asir Region police, said (...)
A Bangladeshi worker was trapped while cleaning out soil from a water tank under construction in Al-Qasseer village in northwest Abha.
Civil Defense workers managed to remove the man who sustained minor bruises and other injuries to his feet.
Maj. (...)
year-old Saudi national died after falling from the top of Mount Al-Madragah of Rijal Alma' Governorate in Asir Region. Eyewitnesses said the old man toppled from a height of 150 meters as he was tending his sheep.
Security agencies rushed to the (...)
Bisha Court issued a divorce document ending the story of a 70-year-old man who married a 14-year-old girl. The man divorced the girl a month later.
The girl's mother filed a case against the 70-year-old man demanding he divorce her daughter (...)
The Shariah Court here will look into the case of an Arab national charged with deceiving girls into having sex with him as “treatment” to repair the girls' broken hymen.
The man in his late thirties was apprehended by the Commission for Promotion (...)
The cost of a water tanker in Abha has gone up about three-fold. A tanker is now being sold for SR300 as the water crisis aggravated this week, residents said.
People in large numbers are queuing up for the tankers, they said pointing out the (...)
Asir police clarified on the circumstances of 18 Yemenis suffering burns while scavenging in the Khamees Mushayt garbage dump.
Police confirmed that these were violators and illegal migrants to the region. They had carried out thefts and robberies (...)