Neighbors of an African resident new to the neighborhood of Al-Doha in Khamis Mushayt were shocked to discover that he was not the trader in candy he purported to be, but instead was housing a small alcohol factory and playing host to illicit (...)
Officers of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Khamis Mushayt, south of the Kingdom, walk around a small lake of liquor discovered on Saturday near Tindiha Dam in the eastern part of the city. The quantity of liquor in (...)
Saudi national soccer team players Saud Kariri (L), Tayseer Al-Jassim (C) and Majed Al-Marshadi jog during a training session in Sendai, Japan, Saturday. The team is holding a camp in Japan in preparation for its World Cup qualifier against North (...)
A court here has sentenced a gang of five to a total of 85 years and 17,000 lashes for the armed robbery and burglary of a number of gold shops in the Southern Province. The ringleader got 25 years in prison and 5,000 lashes and other four received (...)
A woman has been arrested for allegedly selling the banned herb qat in Umm Sarar District in the Industrial Estate on Friday. On a tip off, agents of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Khamis raided the woman's home (...)
A Civil Defense team rescued six members of a family when a fire broke out in their home in Mahayil Governorate. The fire was concentrated in three rooms and the house was extensively damaged.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the fire was (...)
Two Arab brothers died after being electrocuted in Tindiha while painting the third floor of a building under construction. They were on the scaffold but lost their balance and the scaffold toppled onto high voltage cables electrocuting both the (...)
An African national was arrested on Friday allegedly for selling liquor. The arrest came after staff members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Al-Sinaia District of Khamis Mushayt set a trap. The African was caught (...)
The tires of a Saudi Public Transport Company (SAPTCO) bus caught fire on Shi'ar mountain road on Thursday evening. All 43 passengers of the bus were evacuated and Civil Defense firefighting teams brought the fire under control in a short time. None (...)
A fire broke out in a car parked near the owner's house in Khamis Mushayt's Al-Sharafia District. Civil Defense firefighting and rescue teams rushed to the scene and extinguished the fire before it could spread. Investigations revealed that the (...)
Depressed, angry and frustrated from her family problems, a 22-year-old Saudi divorced woman strangled to death her five-month-old daughter Wafa.
In a fit of rage, the mother first strangled Wafa with her hands and then used an extension cord to (...)
Speeding kills. Despite concerted efforts by the authorities in the Kingdom to desist drivers from the deadly habit of overspeeding, innumerable accidents take place on the Kingdom's roads.
The unhealthy habit cost a family very dearly on Friday. (...)
An African national, considered the biggest liquor peddler in Asir Region, was nabbed here on Friday. About 180 large liquor bottles were also seized from him.
Officials of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in the (...)
The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Khamis Mushayt's Industrial Estate raided a liquor distillery in Al-Mathnah District. Commision officials had been observing the residence for some time.
Two Indians allegedly (...)
Three people died and two were injured in a head-on collision on the Riyadh-Khamis Mushayt road near the Turaib rural center.
The three killed in the accident were a father and two children in one car and two youths were injured in the other car. (...)
year-old girl suffered third degree burns when a fire broke out in her family's home in Al-Qabil District in Abha. The girl was taken to the Asir Central Hospital by the Red Crescent and Civil Defense teams evacuated the seven other people in the (...)
ONE of the objections raised against the Islamic Law of divorce or Talaq is that in empowering man to divorce, Islam has been harsh and unjust to the woman. While pondering over the issue, three alternative answers come to the query: who should be (...)
Asir Police busted a liquor distillery on Bani Malik road that produced over 3.5 tons of liquor every day. An illegal Ethiopian immigrant carrying a pistol with 13 bullets was arrested at the scene.
Police seized over 3.5 tons of liquor (Araq), 100 (...)
Civil Defense teams here evacuated 21 people trapped in six apartments in a blazing 3-story building on Monday.
The firefighting teams used cranes and retractable ladders to evacuate the residents to the roof of the building as fire-fighters tried (...)
year-old boy was burned to death in a camel hair tent, east of Khamis Mushayt. The boy was left unattended in a tent while his family was out tending their sheep.
Preliminary investigations by the Civil Defense revealed that the family had left the (...)
The ceiling of a car showroom collapsed smashing car windows and damaging more than 10 vehicles in Khamis Mushayt. Workers were able to remove some of the undamaged cars. No casualties were reported after the incident.
The car showroom owner is (...)
Civil Defense firefighters put out a fire in a deserted worker residence compound near Khamis Mushayt Civil Hospital. Firefighters were able to contain the fire after an hour.
The building was filled with paper and clothes which facilitated the (...)
Several deaths were reported in traffic accidents across the Kingdom.
Two died and a third was injured in Abha when two vehicles collided causing one vehicle to split into two.
Civil Defense workers cut through twisted metal to rescue the injured (...)
A Pakistani worker died after falling into an elevator shaft four stories high.
The building where he died was under construction here. He was working when his foot slipped and he fell into the elevator shaft. Rescue teams arrived at the scene but (...)
A Civil Defense rescue team rescues a family of eight trapped in a room by a fire caused by a short circuit. A Civil Defense rescue team was dispatched to put out the fire located in Al-Sharafiya District in Khamis Mushayt. The rescue team were able (...)