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Articles of the author Okaz AL MAKHWA
Confidence tricksters detained
Three Saudis were arrested in Al-Makhwa on Wednesday for “swindling people out of money”. The three, all in their thirties, are accused of taking money from the public claiming that they worked in completing government paperwork on their behalf, but (...)

14 - 05 - 2010
Father foils broody baboon
The father of a two-year-old child foiled an attempt by a baboon to snatch his son on Monday. The “savage beast” reportedly entered a house where the infant was playing in the town of Al-Ardhiya to the north east of Al-Qunfudah and snatched him in (...)

14 - 04 - 2010
Teenager drowns
A 16-year-old boy drowned in Wadi Al-Khaitan on Tuesday while out swimming as his family watched from shore. The teenager was reportedly caught unawares by turbulent weather and strong waves, and despite relatives rushing to help was unable to be (...)

20 - 02 - 2010
Rescue teams free child from room
Civil Defense emergency rescue teams were called to the house of a Saudi family on Tuesday to extract a four-year-old child who had locked herself in a room at home in Al-Makhwa. The girl was reportedly playing in the room and had managed to turn (...)

28 - 01 - 2010
Police arrest violent brother
A 35-year-old man has been arrested by police in Al-Makhwa for beating up his elder sister. The 43-year-old contacted police on Friday to say that her brother had attacked her, and arresting officers described that man as in an “unnatural state,” a (...)

28 - 12 - 2009
New women's section for disabled
The Traffic Police Department in Al-Makhwa, west of Al-Baha, has opened a new all-female building with a special section for the handicapped. “The new building, with its sections for able-bodied women and handicapped females will go a long way (...)

05 - 11 - 2009
HIV patient escapes hospital
Police are trying to locate a 29-year-old Yemeni with HIV who escaped from Al-Qunfudha General Hospital on Tuesday with the help of a friend. Officials are trying to determine how the man, who had been kept under “close guard” at the hospital for a (...)

04 - 09 - 2009
Monkeys find window of opportunity
A man in an Al-Makhwa village returned home Wednesday to discover that all the food and drink he had stored up for the month of Ramadan had been consumed in a baboon feast. The man said he had stored up a month's worth of supplies to avoid having (...)

29 - 08 - 2009
Ambulance attends to ambulance
Three persons were injured when an ambulance went through a red light and struck a car head-on at a junction in Al-Baha Monday, leaving the ambulance on its side. The vehicles' two drivers and a female nurse were reportedly taken to the hospital (...)

22 - 07 - 2009
Drunks posing as cops attack Yemeni
A Yemeni resident was attacked and robbed by three persons on Monday who approached their victim claiming to be policemen. The three were, according to police, in a state of inebriation, and police were able to trace the vehicle in which they fled (...)

10 - 06 - 2009
Three drown in swimming accidents
The body of a 16-year-old boy was found in a small river in the east of Khamis Mushayt by search teams that had been sent out several hours earlier after his clothes were found in the area. The boy's body was found entangled in bushes in the (...)

02 - 05 - 2009
9 Arabs stopped from entering Jeddah
Police have stopped nine Arabs from entering Jeddah after a vehicle tried to flee from a security checkpoint. A police vehicle set off in pursuit of the car and stopped it. Upon inspection they discovered nine men who had reportedly paid SR4,000 to (...)

19 - 03 - 2009
Egyptian caught smuggling Yemenis
An Egyptian truck driver has been detained after taking SR2,000 to take two Yemenis from the south of the Kingdom to Jeddah.When the truck was stopped at a checkpoint, police noticed the driver acting suspiciously, and when they searched his vehicle (...)

24 - 02 - 2009
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