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Articles of the author Abdul Khaliq Al Ghamdi Okaz AL BAHA
Ambulance mishap sends Al-Baha into darkness
A Red Crescent ambulance crashed into an electric pole near Bani Sar town Thursday plunging all nearby towns and villages into darkness and sending all three individuals on board, the driver, the paramedic and the patient, to the hospital. It was (...)

01 - 04 - 2012
Baha couple donates organs of dead son
year-old dead son have donated his organs for those who may need transplants. The boy died in a traffic accident here recently. The request for the young man's organs came from the Saudi Organ Transplant Center (SOTC). A medical team from the SOTC (...)

23 - 01 - 2012
Bouquet of 8,000 roses freshen up Al-Baha air
Ali Bin Ez Adeen Al-Shehri, who works for Al-Baha Mayoralty, has decided to celebrate the National Day in his own way. He made a bouquet of 8,000 roses, the largest in the country, with the Kingdom's flag on top. Al-Shehri's bouquet was put near (...)

24 - 09 - 2011
Act or lose job,Emir of Bahawarns officials
Prince Mishari Bin Saud Bin Abdul Aziz, Emir of Al-Baha region, said that any government official who fails to satisfactorily perform his duties satisafctwill lose his position. Prince Mishari called on officials to mobilize the facilities the (...)

22 - 08 - 2011
Barley prices to decrease, hope herders
The Royal Order to increase the fodder subsidy by 50 percent will have a positive impact on efforts to contain the price hikes that have overburdened livestock herders in different regions. Muhammad Sa'eed Al-Ghamdi, a fodder supplier in Al-Baha, (...)

23 - 07 - 2011
Camels cause deadly accidents on Al-Janoub road
Drivers along Al-Janoub road on their way to the tourist resorts in Taif, Al-Baha and Abha face the danger of stray camels crossing the unlit road at night and causing accidents. Many lives have been lost and people left permanently injured because (...)

15 - 07 - 2011
728 couples tie the knot in Al-Baha
A total of 728 grooms and brides were married in a mass wedding ceremony here Sunday organized by the region's Charitable Organization for Marriage Facilitation. The ceremony was attended by Prince Mishari Bin Saud Bin Abdul Aziz, Emir of (...)

13 - 07 - 2011
257 inmates complete exams of 10 universities
Prisoners sit their exams Saturday. (Okaz photo)TAIF: A total of 257 prisoners, including 19 sentenced death, have completed their year-end examinations Saturday as part-time and distance learning students at 10 Saudi universities. Brig. Gen. Dr. (...)

20 - 06 - 2011
Tribal chiefs play major role in community
ranging role in their tribes, including ensuring reconciliation and consensus among members. Ali Al-Lakhami, Chief of the Balsham Tribe in Baha, said the chief plays the role of a judge who settles disputes and solves various emergencies. He also (...)

30 - 03 - 2011
Six drowned in Al-Leeth, Mikhwah
LEETH: The Civil Defense said that six persons were found drowned in the Al-Leeth and Al-Mikhwah Friday and that the search for other missing persons continues.The Civil Defense in Al-Leeth found four bodies in Al-Rawdah Valley. Helicopters have (...)

02 - 01 - 2011
Four held for stolen car sale
Four persons were arrested on Wednesday for attempting to sell stolen cars, police in Al-Baha said. The arrests were made after a tip off concerning a vehicle without ownership documents being sold in the town's car repair workshop zone. Police set (...)

30 - 07 - 2010
Bride kills unwelcome wedding guest
A brave bride rolled up the sleeves of her wedding dress, picked up a thick stick and used it to kill an uninvited wedding guest: a snake. The black reptile found its way to the wedding reception area in the women's hall in Al-Baha, and drove (...)

29 - 07 - 2010
Villagers relinquish properties for ‘greater good'
The municipal council has praised homeowners in the Al-Baha village of Al-Jawfaa' for relinquishing ownership of their properties to allow the construction of its first proper road to the outside world. Seventeen property owners in the Al-Baha (...)

28 - 07 - 2010
Summer ban on forest bachelors
With an average 4,000 people visiting Al-Baha's Raghdan Forest per day during the summer holidays, authorities at the popular tourist area have forbidden the entrance of single males and youths. “Only families are being allowed in, and security (...)

28 - 07 - 2010
Deal seals cost-effective mass wedding in Ouwaira
The settlement of Ouwaira in north Al-Baha will witness on Thursday the first ever mass wedding in an Al-Baha village when 36 brides and grooms tie the knot in a ceremony costing the husbands-to-be a mere SR2,000. The occasion, to be attended by (...)

15 - 07 - 2010
Official exploits post to turn mosque into home
Local authorities are investigating a man who took possession of a mosque in a public garden and turned it into a house in which he has been living for the last five years. The man, who is an employee of the Qulwa administration, reportedly used (...)

14 - 07 - 2010
Al-Baha police pursue Saudi who wrote bad check for SR1.2m
For five years, Adel Talmees has pursued action against a Saudi national who gave him a bad check for SR1.2 million. Al-Baha Region Police are searching for a man from the region who disappeared after writing the check. Talmees filed a complaint (...)

04 - 07 - 2010
Bangladeshi robbed in card-switch
A 41-year-old Bangladeshi man in Qalwa had 7,700 riyals stolen from his account on Sunday after his ATM card was switched without his knowledge. Police said they were in pursuit of the thief, who replaced the original card with a similar out-of-date (...)

15 - 06 - 2010
Teen threatens pupils with gun
Police arrested a 19-year-old secondary school pupil on Thursday after he threatened to open fire on fellow students with a machine gun. Regional police spokesman Saeed Al-Ghamdi said that officers reached the scene and managed to contain the (...)

21 - 05 - 2010
Bribe lands driver in jail
A Pakistani man has been arrested for attempting to bribe a police officer after he was caught driving his vehicle the wrong way down a road in Baljurashi. Police said that the 35-year-old man had been handed to investigators and will face trial (...)

22 - 04 - 2010
Missing boy's body found in farm well
The body of an 11-year-old boy who had been missing for four days was found on Monday in a well at a farm in the northeast of Al-Baha. Over 300 persons and five scuba divers were involved in the search for Fahd Al-Ghamdi, who lived in Makkah, after (...)

21 - 04 - 2010
Pregnant woman to choose sentence
A court here has given a woman who took painkillers during pregnancy the choice between three months in prison or memorizing three parts of the Qur'an in 180 days. The woman was taken to court accused of attempted suicide after taking 46 pills (...)

07 - 04 - 2010
Young woman guilty of suicide attempt
A judge in one of Al-Baha's regions has sentenced a pregnant woman in her twenties to either memorize three sections of the Qur'an within 180 days or less, or be jailed for three months, after she was found guilty of attempted suicide. The woman's (...)

05 - 04 - 2010
Residents blame authorities for mountain road deaths
Residents of Baljorashi Province are blaming the province's Transport Administration for accidents on its widening mountain roads which they claim have no protective concrete barriers on its bends. A number of accidents have taken place on the (...)

21 - 03 - 2010
Gunman hands himself in
A 36-year-old motorist handed himself in to police in Al-Baha on Sunday to confess to shooting the driver of another vehicle in the chest. Witnesses in an Al-Baha village said they saw two cars trying to knock each other off the road and heard a (...)

16 - 03 - 2010
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