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Articles of the author Okaz Okaz AL DARB
3 female students die in Jizan traffic accident
Three female students were killed and ten others wounded in a road accident in Jizan Tuesday, barely 48 hours after a similar accident in Hail took the lives of 12 female students. Tuesday's tragedy happened as students were returning to their (...)

23 - 11 - 2011
Homes for 31 families in Jizan
Thirty one families whose houses were damaged by floods here after heavy rainfall on Wednesday will be provided with safe shelters on the orders of Prince Muhammad Bin Nasser, Emir of Jizan region. Maj. Gen. Saad Al-Twaijri, Director General of (...)

18 - 11 - 2011
Search for abducted youth on; 420 persons questioned
Darb Governorate, supported by security forces from Jizan region, are continuing their search for Yahya Al-Nashiri, a 14-year-old Al-Darb resident who was kidnapped last week. A philanthropist has set a reward of SR50,000 for anyone providing (...)

24 - 09 - 2011
Police get hash, qat in high speed pursuits
Police in Jizan seized 22 blocks of hashish and 620 bundles of qat in two separate incidents on Monday. The hashish was found in a car driven by a Saudi man who first raised the suspicions of officers when he was observed in a parked vehicle (...)

16 - 06 - 2010
Border patrols get guns, hash and qat
In separate incidents, Border Guard patrols in Dhahran Al-Junoub on Saturday seized weapons, ammunition and drugs from six persons attempting to enter the country illegally. A spokesman said that the smugglers were found with approximately 60 (...)

31 - 05 - 2010
3 hurt in double truck fuel blaze
The road between Jizan and Al-Darb was cut off on Monday when two fuel container trucks collided and burst into flames near the Al-Hamraa' checkpoint. Eyewitnesses said the vehicles struck each other at high speed leading to a blaze that took (...)

13 - 05 - 2010
Soldier's sons drown
Two children drowned off the shores of Al-Shaqeeq in Jizan on Tuesday when they were overcome by strong waves while out swimming. The bodies of the two brothers, whose father is a Saudi soldier stationed at the southern border, were recovered by (...)

12 - 03 - 2010
Five tons of booze in pipes
Police in Jizan are investigating the discovery on Wednesday of five tons of the illegal alcoholic beverage araq hidden in part of the drainage network in Al-Darb. The materials were found in piping hidden deep in the network and investigators are (...)

21 - 01 - 2010
2 die in currents
Two persons drowned and a third was rescued this week after they found themselves in strong sea currents off the coast of Al-Shaqeeq north of Jizan. Border Guard rescue teams were called out to the three swimmers, all male youths, after they were (...)

21 - 01 - 2010
One held in kidnapping
One arrest has been made over last month's kidnapping of Egyptian boy Ahmed Issam who was found alive in Al-Darb after going missing for four days from his home in Bish, police said. Officials said the arrested was a “young man believed to be (...)

21 - 01 - 2010
Expat worker dies in room
Police are investigating the death of an expatriate worker whose body was found Friday in his room adjacent to the electronic appliance repair shop where he worked. A medical report said that the man's “blood circulation ceased due to a previous (...)

24 - 08 - 2009
Women, children among 27 injured in bus crash
Six women and five children were among 27 injured when their bus traveling from Jeddah to Jizan overturned in Al-Darb Friday. One passenger said that the vehicle's path was blocked by a car leading the bus driver to take action which caused the bus (...)

08 - 08 - 2009
Weekend toll of five deaths, dozens injured
Three young men died Friday morning when their car was struck by a truck on the Al-Darb to Jizan road. Three others were injured in the collision. In Dhulum one person was killed and ten injured in two separate accidents, the first when a vehicle (...)

02 - 05 - 2009
Accidents kill eight
Five persons were killed in a car accident near Al-Budei'a, approximately 85 km from Tabuk, following a high-speed collision between two vehicles on Tuesday night. Two people also involved in the accident were seriously injured. Three other people (...)

30 - 04 - 2009
Jizan investor referred to CIP
A well-known investor has been referred to the Commission for Investigation and Prosecution (CIP) in Jizan for threatening the supervisors of a rural complex in Al-Shaqeeq with a cleaver while his team was monitoring violations on the (...)

25 - 02 - 2009
Miraculous escape
A two-year-old boy miraculously escaped death after falling into the septic tank of his family's home. The boy, only identified as T.J., was playing beside the septic tank while a tanker truck was pumping out sewage water from it. Suddenly, the boy (...)

06 - 09 - 2008
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