KUWAIT: A search is on for a policeman who appeared in a social media video flirting with two girls and asking one of them to provide him with her mobile phone number. According to the video, the policeman told the girl he would look for someone who had hit her vehicle in 2004 and throw him in prison. He also responded to her remark that she was married by saying: "What is the problem....we can be just friends".

Officer insulted

A police officer assigned to guard a husseiniya in Mansouriya filed a complaint against a citizen accusing him of insulting a public officer on duty. The officer said that the man refused being searched before entering the husseiniya and threatened and insulted him. Separately, an Asian man was arrested in Jabriya after he was stopped from entering a husseiniya while heavily drunk.

Gone missing

An Egyptian reported that his brother, who works in the media, disappeared on his way to work in the morning and that his mobile phone is switched off. A case was filed and further investigations are in progress. In a similar case, a newly-married woman reported that her husband left the family home in Jabriya last Saturday and hasn't returned. Separately, two female citizens who had been reported missing by their families were arrested on Gulf Road.

Suicide attempts

An Asian housemaid was rushed to Babtain Hospital with serious burns she sustained after setting herself ablaze, because her sponsor had not paid her salary for months. A case was filed for investigation. Another 44-year-old Asian housemaid was rushed to Mubarak Hospital where she underwent a gastric lavage after she swallowed a large number of pills to commit suicide. The housemaid said she had family problems and denied her sponsor had anything to do with it.

Contrabands possession

An Asian was arrested in Hawally with 17 homebrewed liquor bottles, said security sources, adding that the suspect's residency visa had also expired. Separately, an Asian was arrested on arrival at Kuwait International Airport with 3,000 illicit pills he had hidden in his luggage.

Physical assault

A Syrian reported that a compatriot and three unidentified persons assaulted him in Khaitan, after the man he knew ambushed him. Meanwhile, two citizens were arrested for fighting over a girl in a parking lot in Mishref. - Al-Rai and Al-Anbaa