QATAR | Crash
Driver dies in accident
The driver of a tipper truck died when another tipper fell on his vehicle while working in the Umm Salal area, on the outskirts of Doha, early yesterday. The victim, identified as Mohamed Jabshar, a 33-year old Indian, had resumed duties only earlier in the day after returning from his vacation in Koduvally in Kerala’s Kozhikode district. His body was taken to India for burial late in the evening.
QATAR | Environment
Cleaning campaign
HE the Minister of Environment Ahmed Amer Mohamed al-Humaidi will launch the activities of 10th edition of the national cleaning campaign at Rawdat al-Majidah on Saturday. The campaign will go on for two months aiming at cleaning the desert, beaches, islands and other places on the outskirts of the country. Various entities and ministries of the country are taking part in the campaign, in addition to school and university students. The Ministry of Environment has formed a special committee to organise the campaign.
QATAR | Crime
Passenger jailed
for carrying drugs
A Doha criminal court has sentenced an Asian transit passenger to seven years in jail and a fine of QR200,000 for carrying cocaine in his luggage, local Arabic daily Al-Sharq reported yesterday. The conduct of the transit traveller, who was on his way from Europe to an African country, raised the suspicions of the Customs officers at Hamad International Airport. Accordingly, they conducted a thorough search of his luggage and found cocaine packages estimated to be worth $2,000. The traveller, who was arrested, admitted the possession of the illicit drugs, claiming that a person had given it to him to be delivered to someone in Africa.
