KUWAIT: Two female teenagers, a Pakistani and an Egyptian were recently rushed to Mubarak hospital for attempted suicide as they both had separately swallowed a large number of pills with the intention of killing themselves, said security sources noting that the girls were both revived. The Pakistani teen said she was trying to kill herself to avoid an arranged marriage being forced on her by her family. The Egyptian teen said that she tried to kill herself after her parents took away her mobile phone.

Ex-wife files complaint

A citizen recently filed a complaint against his ex wife accusing her of negligence in taking care of their children as she was late picking them up from school and left them waiting in the sun for what he labeled 'a long time'.

Investigation into death

The corpse of a 51 year old Pakistani man was referred for a coroner investigation after it was discovered that the man, who has been taken to Mubarak hospital for treatment, was found to have been dead more than an hour prior to his arrival at the hospital. The doctors also detected a nose bleed and thus suspect homicide.

Drug users arrested

Two citizens and a GCC national were recently arrested along the gulf road with the possession of drugs, said security sources. In a separate case, a citizen, arrested for using a small wireless-operated toy helicopter to smuggle drugs into the central prison, was recently released on KD 200 bail.

Fraud case reported

Another in a string of telephone fraud cases reported, an expat reported that someone called telling him that he won a grand financial prize and hat he needed to provide his bank account number and pin code so that they could deposit the money. The man said that later on, he found out that KD 130 had been withdrawn from his account.

Swindlers wanted

A citizen reported that an Arab expat and a stateless person had swindled him off KD 16,000 claiming to use the sum in importing German used vehicles and trading in them before they vanished, said security sources.