KUWAIT: The interior ministry's relations and security media department said detectives arrested a suspect who shot and injured a stateless person in Jahra. The department's statement explained a 30-year-old bedoon was shot outside a Jahra shopping mall, where three bullets were fired at him, wounding him in his feet and lower back. Investigations showed that the shooter - a 43-year-old bedoon - had been waiting outside the mall in an SUV to attack the victim and settle some old scores between them.
Live drills
The coastguard is scheduled to conduct live ammunition drills in the waters off Garouh and Um Al-Maradem islands in the areas between coordinates 048.37.5.E and 28.55.0.N and 048.30.2.E and 28.46.8.N. The drills will be held daily from Jan 6 to 10, 2019 from 8 am till 2 pm. Therefore, for public safety, all sea-goers, fishermen and sailors were requested to keep away from the abovementioned sites during the drills.
By Hanan Al-Saadoun