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Articles of the author Qunfudah coast Okaz AL QUNFUDAH
Frontier Guard patrols foil infiltration bid
The Frontier Guard sea patrols have succeeded in foiling the entry of 36 infiltrators of different nationalities including women and children across the territorial waters using a medium-sized boat. The success late Wednesday came just days after (...)

18 - 09 - 2010
Heavy rains lash Kingdom's south
Heavy rains Wednesday in governorates of the Kingdom's south and west left some villages isolated and led to power outages. Civil Defense administrators have mobilized all their resources in response to the bad weather, which is expected to (...)

26 - 08 - 2010
Qunfudah college enrolls 600 students
Dr. Ibrahim Bin Ali Assiri, Dean of the University College in Qunfudah, said the college has accepted the largest batch of secondary school graduates since its establishment. He said 600 students have been enrolled in the college as against 500 (...)

13 - 08 - 2010
29 Makkah-bound illegals arrested
Police from Al-Qunfudah Governorate's Hali town on Friday captured 29 unidentified illegal aliens who were hiding under bundles of fodder on the bed of a small truck heading for Makkah from Jizan. Police officers on patrol became suspicious when (...)

09 - 08 - 2010
Two girls drown in no-swimming area
Two girls drowned and two of their friends were rescued by Border Guards from a no-swimming area at Ras Muhaisen beach in the north of Al-Qunfudah Governorate, Tuesday. Saleh Bin Muhammad Al-Shehri, assistant spokesman for the Border Guards in (...)

05 - 08 - 2010
Driver arrested for smuggling women
A driver was arrested here Friday for trying to smuggle to Jeddah a group of illegal aliens in his vehicle. Twelve women and a boy were also arrested, an official source in Al-Qunfudah Traffic Department said. The source said security patrols became (...)

31 - 07 - 2010
Paralyzed man in pursuit of justice for six years
For six years, Hussein Abdul Rahman Badawi, a Saudi national, has pursued legal action against a national road-maintenance company after he was partially paralyzed when his car fell into a deep hole in a road. Badawi, the breadwinner for a family (...)

26 - 07 - 2010
3 from Egyptian family die in accident
An Egyptian woman and two of her children died in a traffic accident on the Jeddah to Jizan coastal road on Saturday. The woman's husband and a third child survived. An accident report said that the driver lost control of the vehicle the family was (...)

14 - 06 - 2010
Emir to hear public's concerns on Taif tour
Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Emir of Makkah, begins Saturday a four-day visit to the region of Taif during which he will hold a series of meetings with regional authorities to review development works and tourism promotion. Prince Khaled's visit will (...)

08 - 05 - 2010
Illegals reassured about census
The Passports Department in Al-Qunfudah Governorate has reassured illegal residents that participating in the census does not mean that they will be arrested and deported. The Department said that the purpose of the census is to count everyone in (...)

30 - 04 - 2010
Only a few Qunfudah projects delayed: Emir
Faisal, Emir of Makkah Region, says that there are only a few projects that are being delayed in Qunfudah, while the rest were being undertaken in good time. He cited as an example of a delayed project the building of a technical college and nine (...)

21 - 04 - 2010
‘Officials to blame for expired vaccines'
“Negligence and recklessness” by health officials caused 11 children to be injected with expired vaccines, according to Dr. Abdul Fatah Bin Ibrahim Sindi, of the Directorate of Health Affairs in Qunfudah. He said some directors of the health (...)

07 - 04 - 2010
11 children allegedly given expired vaccines
Officials here are to hold an emergency meeting after it emerged that three primary health centers in Tabuk allegedly injected 11 children with expired measles and hepatitis vaccines. Sources said that Dr. Abdul Fatah Bin Ibrahim Sindi, Director of (...)

04 - 04 - 2010
Man dies in hail of bullets outside mosque
year-old man was killed by a gunman in front of his four children as he was leaving a mosque here after Friday prayers. The murderer was walking behind the man and called out his name. When the man turned around, the murderer pulled out his gun and (...)

28 - 02 - 2010
Long lines at slaughterhouses boost illegal butchery
Butchers are refusing to brandish their knifes to slaughter an Eid sheep for less than SR200 in Jeddah, an increase from just SR40 on regular days. And before putting the knife to the neck of a camel or cow, butchers are demanding SR700. This is (...)

28 - 11 - 2009
Two expatriates electrocuted
An Egyptian and a Sri Lankan expatriate were electrocuted when they accidentally touched a live electric wire while working in a building project in Heli Al-Barihah on Saturday. One of the victims died on the spot and the other breathed his last in (...)

10 - 05 - 2009
Hepatitis misdiagnosis alleged
The father of a boy with hepatitis is set to file a complaint with the director of Health Affairs against the hospital that repeatedly failed to diagnose his condition. Mousa Maqadi, 11, was taken to Qunfudah General Hospital last month suffering (...)

06 - 05 - 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
Doctors fail to spot battery in child's nose
An incorrect medical diagnosis led to a child being left with a hole in his nose cartilage after a doctor failed to spot a battery inserted up one of his nostrils. “I took my two-year-old, Ahmed, to Al-Qunfudah Hospital because he had a pain in his (...)

17 - 03 - 2009
Desert killer ends lives of two on highway
Two people were killed and five others injured Saturday morning when their vehicle hit a camel crossing the Coast Highway near Mudailif, 300 km southwest of Jeddah, authorities said. The two were pronounced dead at the scene. The injured were taken (...)

15 - 02 - 2009
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