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Suspected ‘murder’ turns out to be a cat run over by vehicle
Suspected ‘murder’ turns out to be a cat run over by vehicle Staff Reporter / 18 March 2014 Concerned citizen calls police after seeing a woman burying some blood-stained object. A concerned Abu Dhabi citizen reported a suspected murder to the police after he witnessed a woman getting out of her car and burying something. He also saw bloodstains all over the place. The ‘murder’ victim later turned out to be a cat, which was run over by a vehicle. The citizen residing in Madinat Khalifa in Abu Dhabi notified the police’s Operations Room after he saw the woman “fleeing” when he approached the scene. He had seen the woman take out something wrapped in a jacket from the car and burying it. “There were blood stains all over the place,” he told the police. The police rushed medical examiners from the Crime Scene Department, a Criminal Investigations Department (CID) team and a police patrol to the spot. They dug out a cat, which died after it was apparently run over. Colonel Dr Rashid Mohammad Borshid, Head of the CID at the Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, urged people to abstain from “suspicious or frightening behaviour” so that precious time of the security forces is not wasted. news@khaleejtimes.com For more news from Khaleej Times, follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/khaleejtimes , and on Twitter at @khaleejtimes Continue reading
More rains, low visibility forecast for today
More rains, low visibility forecast for today Haseeb Haider / 16 March 2014 Sharjah received even heavier rainfall, with the Sharjah International Airport recording 2.6mm rainfall. The UAE received heavy rainfall on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday, with more rainfall predicted in the eastern and northern parts of the country today. The wind will be moderate to fresh, reducing visibility over open land due to the blowing of dust and sand. A dip in temperature tempted the adventurous to take water bike rides at Al Mamzar beach on Saturday. — KT photo by Shihab According to the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS), the northwesterly winds, which is predicted to accelerate in the night over the western region on Saturday, will extend to the rest of the country, bringing the temperatures down by 5-7 degrees Celsius. On Friday, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah and its adjoining areas received sudden showers of rain. Some areas experienced hailstorms as well. Abu Dhabi’s Suwaihan got 34.6mm rainfall, followed by Ashab which got 30.8mm rainfall. Heavy rainfalls and hailstorm lashed Dubai, with the city’s airport recording 0.6mm rainfall. Sharjah received even heavier rainfall, with the Sharjah International Airport recording 2.6mm rainfall. Parts of Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Al Ain also received heavy rainfall in the early hours of Saturday. After a rainy Friday in the capital, residents woke up to a sunny Saturday. NCMS has predicted partly cloudy to cloudy skies, saying the amount of clouds will increase over scattered areas with different intensity of rainfall especially over northern and eastern areas of the country. Sea will be rough over the Arabian Gulf and sea of Oman. – haseeb@khaleejtimes.com 5 minutes of rain, 2,020 distress calls! Amira Agarib The sudden short spell of rain and hailstorm that lashed the city on Friday night saw 2,020 calls being made to the Dubai Police Operation Room within a span of three hours. The calls were made from 9pm to midnight. Comparatively, on Thursday the police received 1,100 calls during the same time. Brigadier Omer Mohammed Al Shamsi, director of the Command and Control Room of the Dubai Police, said the police also guided motorists through its Twitter account. He said the storm continued for just five minutes. No major accidents were reported from Dubai roads except for one collision between two cars that occurred at around 1.30am on Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road. The collision took place on Al Manama Bridge in which one of the cars overturned and caught fire, causing serious injury to the driver, an Emirati. Two bodies found in valley Al Shamsi said the police also responded to a distress call from an Omani driver (with Oman number plate) after his vehicle veered off the Hatta-Oman road and slipped into a valley filled with water. The police rushed to the spot but found only his damaged car. Later, on Saturday morning, the police found two bodies of a man and a woman from the accident site. The Dubai Police in coordination with the Oman Police are investigating whether the bodies found were of the occupants of the Omani car that fell into the valley. news@khaleejtimes.com For more news from Khaleej Times, follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/khaleejtimes , and on Twitter at @khaleejtimes Continue reading
Shaikh Mohammed receives Tunisian prime minister
Shaikh Mohammed receives Tunisian prime minister (Wam) / 16 March 2014 The Vice-President was briefed by Jomaa on the inclusive security, political and economic situation in Tunisia and the government efforts to combat extremism. His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, received Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa and his accompanying delegation on Saturday. Shaikh Mohammed reviewed with the Tunisian high-profile guest relations of cooperation between the UAE and Tunisia, especially in areas of investment, tourism and trade exchange. The Vice-President was briefed by Jomaa on the inclusive security, political and economic situation in Tunisia and the government efforts to combat extremism and promote security and stability in the country. Shaikh Mohammed emphasised the support of President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, government and people of the UAE for the brotherly Tunisian people to get out of the tunnel of social, living and security instability. He expressed his hope for the return of internal scene in Tunisia to normalcy, and for stability, as well as cultural, tourist and economic openness to the world. For his part, the Tunisian prime minister expressed the gratitude of his government and the people of Tunisia to the UAE for its supportive stances towards the Tunisian people economically and politically. He said that his country needed more support and assistance to ride out the current economic crisis so as to be able to hold the legislative and presidential elections by the end of the year. The meeting was attended by Shaikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of Development and International Co-operation, and head of honorary mission accompanying the Tunisian prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Gargawi, Minister for Cabinet Affairs, and a number of senior officials. In attendance also from the Tunisian side were Foreign Minister Mongi Hamdi, Tunisian Ambassador to the UAE Tareq Baltayeb and members of the delegation accompanying the prime minister. For more news from Khaleej Times, follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/khaleejtimes , and on Twitter at @khaleejtimes Continue reading
