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Articles of the author Okaz AL LAITH
Committee to probe teen car death
Makkah Police have ordered a security investigation committee to be formed to look into the death of a teenager who was thrown from a moving vehicle near a gas station in Al-Laith two months ago. Dhafer Al-Mahdawi, 18, was reportedly forced into (...)

02 - 06 - 2010
Fuel tanker rams into a small car
The coastal road three km from Al-Ghala checkpoint in northern Al-Laith Governorate was closed for over four hours when a tanker carrying fuel crashed into a small car and caught fire on Friday. According to security reports, the driver of the (...)

18 - 04 - 2010
Al-Laith clinics have no bed sheets
Laundry shops have stopped delivery of bed sheets and pillow cases to the Al-Laith Governorate Clinics Administration for failure to pay bills worth SR3,000, sources said. The clinics administration has blamed the sub-contracted company for the (...)

04 - 10 - 2009
Police probe accident that killed eight
Police are investigating the details of a bus accident in which eight people – including three female teachers – were killed and 20 others injured on Tuesday. The driver of the ill-fated bus is being questioned, following accusations that he (...)

28 - 05 - 2009
Scorpions ruin wedding ceremony
Three scorpions ruined a collective wedding ceremony in Al-Laith. Two scorpions showed up during dinner time and the third emerged from the clothes of one of the four grooms while he was greeting the guests. The four grooms chose a wedding hall (...)

24 - 05 - 2009
Thief crashes relationship with friend
A young man who stole and crashed a car found out he had taken the vehicle of a close friend's brother after a further lapse led police directly to him. he man spotted the flash car left parked and running outside a restaurant and without a second (...)

22 - 05 - 2009
150,000 sign up for entrance examinations
About 150,000 students have enrolled to sit the aptitude test (Qiyas) required of university entrants, Prince Faisal Abdullah Al-Meshari, head of the National Center for Measurement and Evaluation at the Ministry of Higher Education, has (...)

14 - 04 - 2009
Four get jail for stealing rifles
A court here sentenced four persons to a month in jail each for stealing three rifles from the house of a man who hosted them and offered them lunch. The host tried to resolve the issue by approaching the leaders of his tribe but the four denied the (...)

29 - 03 - 2009
Khaled criticizes delay in vital Al-Laith projects
Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Emir of Makkah, on Sunday criticized delay in completion of some development projects in Al-Laith and Qunfudah. “There are 18 stalled projects while 20 others have been completed,” the Emir said in response to a (...)

23 - 03 - 2009
Four die in car accidents
At least four people were reported killed in traffic accidents across the Kingdom Saturday. In Tanoumah, in the southwest of the country, an Indian driver hit a concrete barricade and died instantly, with speeding said to have been the cause of the (...)

22 - 03 - 2009
Authorities probe police negligence
Police in Al-Laith are investigating a complaint from a man who accused a security patrol of delaying the transfer of his son to hospital, resulting in him suffering from medical complications and going into a coma. Khamees Mufnik Al-Halali said (...)

17 - 03 - 2009
Malaria pills put 7 in hospital
Health authorities in Al-Laith are investigating claims from a resident that a mobile medical team dispensing anti-malaria pills caused seven members of his family to fall ill. In Al-Haqba, 90 km to the east of Al-Laith, a medical team carried out (...)

07 - 03 - 2009
Stipends not paid to girl students for five months
Students of Al-Laith Educational College for Girls have complained that they have not received their educational stipends for five months and that they have received no explanation for the failure of the authorities to pay them. Furthermore, they (...)

18 - 02 - 2009
Roaring business for unlicensed butchers
Unlicensed butchers were seen brandishing their knives Monday along the streets waiting for customers who were trying to avoid the crowds at the slaughterhouses across the Kingdom. And they were doing a roaring business charging SR200 for each (...)

09 - 12 - 2008
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