KUWAIT: Judicial sources yesterday denied reports claiming that attempted murder charges were pressed against an Egyptian man who was hospitalized after he was beaten up badly in a Shuwaikh industrial area shop recently, noting that the case is so far classified as a fight.

This came in response to reports circulated on Tuesday and accusing the Egyptian man, identified as Waheed Mahmoud, of starting the fight by insulting the Kuwaiti citizen and hitting him with a screwdriver.

"The public prosecutor has not decided yet on this case," stressed the sources, noting that the Capital attorney Fahd Al-Awadh only received the case file yesterday from Shuwaikh industrial area investigators accompanied with medical reports about the injuries.

The sources added that the public prosecution will decide the charges against both of them. The citizen will be interrogated by the public prosecutor today, while the Egyptian is expected to be interrogated on Sunday.

By A Saleh