A father in his 70s testified in a Shariah Court here Wednesday that he killed his 30-year-old son 11 months ago.
According to police, the son suffered from a mental illness.
The case was initially registered as a suicide based on the testimony of (...)
Investigations have established that the delay in reporting the fire that consumed ten floors of the Hajer Tower in Makkah two weeks ago was caused by a security employee who opted to call his supervisor instead of alerting the Civil Defense.
Col. (...)
Faisal, Emir of Makkah region, suspended the agreement between the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT) under which the latter had been assigned to issue permits for hotels and buildings in Makkah to (...)
About 800 Umrah pilgrims were evacuated to safe places after a room of the hotel they were staying in caught fire in the central area of the holy city.
Captain Saleh Al-Eleyani, spokesperson to the media at the Civil Defense Department in Makkah, (...)
A fire devoured four small shacks belonging to a company at Al-Khaledeyah 2 District in Makkah on Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters succeeded in preventing the fire from extending to 70 more shacks inhabited by dozens of other workers and built over (...)
