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Articles of the author Hatim Al Masoudi Okaz
‘I beat her to discipline, not kill'
Rozan's stepmother, accused of murdering the child after torturing her for three years, validated her earlier confession to the general court in Makkah on Monday. According to the stepmother, she was beating the 10-year-old child to discipline her (...)

06 - 06 - 2012
One dead, another hurt after mountain fall
An African man died on the spot Tuesday after falling off a mountain in Makkah while his friend was injured and rushed to the hospital. The Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution teams have begun an intensive investigation to find out what made (...)

20 - 04 - 2012
Grand Mosque's courtyard is their abode
Bushra and Fatima are widows, both over 50 years of age, who have gone through ordeals in their lives and have lost touch with their families. They sleep in the courtyards of the Grand Mosque and use the restrooms there to wash their clothes. They (...)

20 - 01 - 2012
70 Umrah overstayers arrested
The Passports Department on Sunday arrested 70 Turks and Egyptians who had overstayed their Umrah visa in the Kingdom. Col. Ayed Al-Loqmani, head of the department in Makkah, said the overstayers, were staying in a Makkah house rented out by four (...)

10 - 11 - 2008
Medics save Indonesian maid
An Indonesian housemaid in her 30s was saved by medics after she slit her wrists in an apparent suicide attempt. A medical team at An-Noor Hospital in Makkah came to the aid of the maid in Al-Kakiyah District where she lived and worked for her (...)

06 - 10 - 2008
Plight of Egyptian pilgrims to end
The Ministry of Haj has ordered an Umrah operator to relocate 92 Egyptian pilgrims to a new building as contracted and compensate them for the days they spent at a run-down building, said Adel Balkhair, Assistant Minister for Umrah Affairs. The (...)

18 - 09 - 2008
Suspected case of food poisoning
Three suspected cases of food poisoning were reported in the Holy City on Tuesday. Three children were hospitalized after eating at a shawarma restaurant in the city's Re'a Thakher District. Authorities have set up a committee to investigate the (...)

28 - 08 - 2008
Torture suspected in death of expat child
Police arrested a Pakistani couple on suspicion of having tortured their four-year-old handicapped daughter to death. The father had taken the lifeless girl, Samar Muhammad Saleem, to Ajyad Hospital in Makkah. He claimed that the bruises on her (...)

10 - 07 - 2008
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