KUWAIT: An Asian deliveryman reported that on arriving to deliver a meal in Khaitan, four unidentified young men gathered around him to receive the order. He added that one of them snatched the meal while another picked up a stone and hit him in the face. He added that when he reached for his phone to record what was happening, they also took his phone and KD 53 he had on him. A case was filed and further investigations are in progress to identify the robbers and arrest them.

Fatal accident

A senior Iraqi woman was instantly killed while her son and four of her grandchildren sustained various injuries in an accident along Salmi highway.

Drunk

Getting fed up with the many practical jokes he played on them when he got drunk, an Asian drunkard's roommates reported him to the police. He was arrested while heavily intoxicated.

Property damage

A citizen was arrested for damaging a female citizen's vehicle, said security sources. Case papers indicate that the woman went to a beauty salon and parked her vehicle outside the building, only to come out and find all four tires flattened by an angry citizen living in the same building and in whose parking place she had parked.

Drugs

Ahmadi detectives arrested a citizen wanted for a KD 17,000 financial claim. Police found meth and a bar of hashish with the man.

Theft

A search is on for two unidentified robbers who broke into an Adan Co-op society's branch with masks and a shovel, with which they threatened the cashier and took in the entire cash box with all the money in it. Security sources said detectives confiscated tapes of the surveillance cameras and examined fingerprints at the scene.

Scam

A female citizen in her forties reported that her ex-husband - a citizen - had swindled her out of KD 11,000 he took to supposedly import used vehicles and trade in them. The woman also said that as soon as he received the money, he started picking up fights with her only three months into their marriage, until they got divorced. A case was filed and the suspect is being summoned for further investigations.

Threats

A citizen in her fifties reported that her son threatened to harm her over some family problems with his wife. A case was filed and the son is being summoned for further investigations. - Translated from the Arabic press