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52 hospitalized after dust storm
two people were admitted to Dhamad Hospital's emergency unit Thursday afternoon following a dust storm, an official said. A large number of them suffered from asthma and chest allergies, said Mahmoud Abdullah Maghshi, assistant director of the (...)

24 - 07 - 2011
Expatriate shackled with iron chains for 21 years
For the last 21 years, Muhammad Abkar, a mentally disabled 36-year-old Yemeni, has been restrained with iron chains in a small room because his family has been fearful of his behavior. Abkar's uncle, Muhammad Odhabi, who is 76 and his only family (...)

24 - 08 - 2010
Locals deplore delay in healthcare center work
“A contractors' plaything” is how locals are describing the Primary Healthcare Center in Dhamad that remains unbuilt after four years. “They've taken advantage of the fact that there has been no administrative overseeing of the works,” one local (...)

03 - 02 - 2010
Infiltrators invade homes, threaten citizens with guns
Saudis from the village of Al-Sayyabah claim that infiltrators invaded their homes and threatened them with machine guns. This was the way Jaber Hasan Al-Ka'bi, 80, described the situation before he was evacuated from his village to a tent camp in (...)

01 - 12 - 2009
Qat guy flees in woman's attire
A Yemeni driver who refused to stop upon police orders eventually abandoned his vehicle after a high speed chase and fled on foot in women's clothes along with a companion, leaving behind over 1,000 bundles of qat. The fleeing pair were later caught (...)

28 - 10 - 2009
Mistakenly deported Saudi brought home a second time
Nine days after being mistakenly deported to Yemen with illegal entrants to the Kingdom for a second time, 42-year-old Ahmad Hassan Shoukani was returned Sunday to his family in the village of Al-Suleil. Shoukani, who according to his family (...)

16 - 06 - 2009
Saudi mistakenly deported to Yemen for second time
A Saudi national has revealed his anger at discovering that his missing cousin who suffers from mental illness had been deported to Yemen after he was mistaken for being an illegal resident. Mohammed Shoukani also noted that it was not the first (...)

13 - 06 - 2009
15 African women arrested
Staffers of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice on Saturday arrested 15 African women on charges of promiscuity and lewdness. The arrests followed a raid on a house where the women were found to be in compromising positions (...)

08 - 02 - 2009
Family dispute burns a car
Police here arrested a Yemeni national for burning the car of his relative four months ago after which he left for his country. On his return to Dhamad, he was spotted and the victim immediately reported him to the police. The suspect admitted he (...)

28 - 01 - 2009
Arab fraudster nabbed
Police here arrested an Arab man for swindling several people of tens of thousands of riyals in bogus luxury car deals. The man posed as a salesman of a leading car dealership taking down payments with assurances of easy monthly payments. The (...)

21 - 01 - 2009
Girl drowns in flood
year-old girl drowned here Saturday in Jouri Valley after she slipped off a rock into the flood caused by heavy rains in the area since Thursday. The girl, Samar Ibrahim Zail'ee, was out with her family on a recreation trip near the valley. Civil (...)

22 - 12 - 2008
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