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Articles of the author Okaz SAMTA A 60
Old man commits suicide
year-old man committed suicide by burning himself to death in Sabia, south of the Kingdom, Friday. The man poured kerosine over his body and set himself on fire inside his house. The family members tried to douse the fire and called an ambulance. (...)

23 - 01 - 2011
Hash smugglers flee in shoot-out
Border Guard authorities in the Jizan town of Al-Mahdaf foiled an attempt on Wednesday to smuggle into the Kingdom 86 blocks of hashish after the suspicions of a security patrol were raised by the movement of a group of persons along the southern (...)

25 - 09 - 2010
Stray bullet ends a boy's life, another drowns in a water tank
Two boys have died in accidents that could have been prevented, officials said. A stray bullet pierced a 10-year-old boy's head after one of his relatives handled a gun he did not realize was loaded and another drowned in a water tank, according to (...)

04 - 09 - 2010
African woman's body found
An African woman thought to have entered the Kingdom illegally or have overstayed a pilgrimage visa was found dead near the small town of Wa'lan in the south of Samta in Jizan on Wednesday. Police were alerted to the presence of the heavily (...)

16 - 04 - 2010
Obscene thieves leave fingerprints
Police in Jizan are trying to identify the persons responsible for the theft of 40,000-riyals-worth of equipment from a secondary school in Samta on Sunday. Officials said that the perpetrators, who entered the premises via an air-conditioning shaft (...)

12 - 04 - 2010
Samta police posit serial sniper theory
year-old woman has been discharged from hospital after suffering a bullet graze in the stomach fired from an unknown source while she was in the street near a girls' college in the town of Samta. Police investigating the incident said that no shot (...)

08 - 02 - 2010
80-yr-old lady immolates herself
year-old woman said to suffer from mental problems died in Jizan on Tuesday when she poured petrol over herself and set it alight. Relations of the woman rushed to put out the fire and take her to hospital where she later died. A police spokesman in (...)

28 - 01 - 2010
7-yr-old silently shot at shops
year-old boy out shopping with his parents on Wednesday was rushed to hospital after being shot by an unidentified gunman. Shoppers at the crowded site said that no one heard gunfire and police suspect that a weapon equipped with a silencer may have (...)

02 - 01 - 2010
Loneliness, grief lead to suicide
A resident of Al-Rakouba in Jizan took his own life with a pistol on Sunday after suffering “loneliness and grief” following the death of his son. The man, who shot himself in the head, had become depressed after losing ownership of a cattle pen, (...)

29 - 12 - 2009
Samta council official attacked
A Samta council official was attacked in a mosque by a local resident who blamed him for demolishing buildings in the village of Al-Rekouba in Najran. The aggressor, purportedly angry at the municipality's demolishing of buildings said to be (...)

14 - 10 - 2009
One quizzed over single bullet death
Police are investigating the death of an unidentified Yemeni man whose body was found lying beside a road in the town of Shi'ib Al-Kharaba to the east of Samta Monday night. Officials said the body appeared to be that of a Yemeni in his twenties who (...)

03 - 09 - 2009
Six-year-old boy's body found
year-old boy who had been missing for three days was found Sunday floating in subterranean drainage channels at his family home. The child, who lived with his family in the town of Al-Watad in Jizan, was a foreign resident and reportedly suffered (...)

25 - 08 - 2009
Thieves steal car
A man who left his car running with his five children inside while he popped into a shop returned to find his offsprings sitting on the pavement and his vehicle gone Monday. The search continues for the two perpetrators of the theft of the vehicle (...)

19 - 08 - 2009
No criminal probe into Jizan body
Police in Jizan have said they are not treating the death of an unidentified person whose body was found Tuesday near the town of Samla as suspicious. Authorities say that initial forensic investigations point toward death from dehydration after the (...)

06 - 08 - 2009
Bid to smuggle qat and hashish foiled
Police discovered three large blocks of hashish on Monday after a motorist that refused to stop at a checkpoint near Samta decided to abandon his vehicle and flee on foot. The car was later found to be rented out by a car rental firm. Ten blocks of (...)

19 - 06 - 2009
Restaurants closed down in Samta
The municipality of Samta in Jizan has closed down a number of restaurants and confiscated large quantities of unhygienic food and vegetables during a recent inspection campaign. Municipality head Muhammad Al-Qahtani said two cafeterias and five (...)

13 - 05 - 2009
Policeman arrested for beating up youth
A policeman working for the Jizan police department has been arrested on charges of beating up a youth. The arrest was made after the youth lodged a complaint with the Samta Governorate police against the security man who was also charged with (...)

10 - 05 - 2009
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