Joint security patrols from Khamis Mushayt and Abha on Friday found 35 barrels filled with liquor hidden inside an incinerator nearyby a deserted a brewery.
The patrols also seized about 8,750 liters of Araq made of contaminated water.
Security (...)
year old mother strangled her five-month old baby at her father's house in Sheba'a district in Khamis Mushayt. The mother was reportedly going through a tough time after her divorce from her father.
She first strangled the child with an electric (...)
18 people, including a policeman, suffered from smoke inhalation when a fire broke out at a textile store located at the exhibition hall of the Abha Shopping Festival on Saturday. The fire was contained before it could spread to nearby shops.
14 (...)
Police in Khamis Mushayt arrested a Somali man for running a prostitution ring of African women.
Security officials raided the prostitution den where the alleged Somali pimp and four women were found in indecent positions.
Police found wigs, (...)
Civil Defense rescue workers found an 11-year old boy who went missing for two hours after he wandered away from his family which had come from Riyadh for picnic in Al-Sawda.
The family searched the mountains and hills on foot but could not find (...)
year-old boy died after falling down an elevator shaft on Saturday morning in Al-Balad district of Khamis Mushayt. The ground hit shattered the boy's skull.
The child's family had come from Najran to spend part of the vacation.
The body was moved (...)
A Sri Lankan worker in his 30's was found dead in his room in Khamis Mushayt when a fire broke out in his room.
Civil Defense firefighting teams had rushed to the scene where they found the worker's room locked. The rescuers had broke into the (...)
As thermometers in other parts of the Kingdom have recorded high temps, the southern part has been blessed with rain. But at a price.
Torrential rains pouring down on Al-Baha and Asir regions accompanied with gutsy winds on Friday afternoon halted (...)
Torrential rains poured down on Asir region shutting down traffic on the roads linking the region for 24 hours as flood water rose on the streets of Abha and other adjacent cities and towns in the region.
Roads leading the dangerous Dhalea descent (...)
In a major bust, the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Asir seized about six tons of alcohol hidden in the region's forests.
The Commission chased liquor peddlers into their hard to reach hideouts in the forests and (...)
It has been a successful week for the authorities in Asir. They foiled the smuggling of 33 gun machines and 464 bullets from the border with Yemen over the last weekend.
They recovered 108 stolen cars and arrested 221 people wanted for criminal (...)
A young man who worked at a local company in Abha shot dead his roommate on Tuesday, set the apartment on fire and hurled himself down from the fourth floor of his apartment building, plunging to his death.
According to Colonel Mansour Al-Shehri, (...)