KUWAIT: A picture released by the Interior Ministry yesterday showing cardboard boxes containing liquor bottles found inside a shipment that arrived to Shuaiba Port yesterday.

KUWAIT: An Arab man was arrested after he arrived at Shuaiba Port to collect a shipment containing alcoholic drinks. Criminal investigators at the Interior Ministry coordinated with the investigations division at the Customs General Department, after receiving information about an alcoholic drinks' shipment arriving from a GCC country. An Arab representative was detained and sent for questioning after he came over to process the paperwork to receive the shipment; in which officers found cardboard boxes containing a total of 8,432 liquor bottles. The man said that he was collecting the shipment on behalf of a Georgian national who imported it. The man was also arrested and sent to the concerned authorities for further action.

Fire

A fire broke out on the roof of a house in Oyoun in Jahra, said security sources, noting that firemen rushed to the scene and found that the fire had started in a room used as store for perfumes. The fire was controlled and no casualties were reported.

By Hanan Al-Saadoun