KUWAIT CITY, July 25:  An Asian housemaid died and another sustained serious head injuries when they jumped from the sixth floor of a building in Hawally Saturday, in an attempt to escape from a domestic labor office in the area.
Securitymen and a medical emergency team were deployed to the location after the Operations Room received information on the incident.  However, one of the housemaids was already dead when they arrived at the scene.  Her remains were referred to Forensics. The other housemaid is now confined at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital.
Police have started investigations to determine the actual reason why the housemaids tried to escape from the domestic labor office.

Woman hangs herself:  A 23-year-old Nepalese woman committed suicide by hanging herself in his sponsor’s house in Oyoun, Jahra Saturday. 
Securitymen and paramedics rushed to the scene after the Operations Room received information on the incident.  When they arrived at the location, the paramedics checked the woman’s body but she was already dead.  Her remains were referred to Forensics.
A case was registered and investigations are underway to determine the actual circumstances which prompted the woman to end her own life. 

Fake KD 20 bills seized: Securitymen arrested an Indian for the possession of forged KD 20 bills worth KD200 in Hassawi Saturday.
While patrolling the area, police stopped the Indian for routine inspection.   Noticing that he looked confused, the securitymen checked his vehicle thoroughly until they found forged KD 20 bills worth KD 200.  He was referred to the concerned security department for the necessary legal action.

Jordanians cheat man: Hawalli securitymen arrested three Jordanians for cheating their compatriot and swindling him to the tune of KD 280,000, reports Al-Anba daily.
Sources say the victim earlier lodged a breach of trust complaint against the three suspects at Salmiya Police Station. The complainant said he met a Jordanian businessman who convinced him to set up an electronics company in Iraq with a capital of KD 5 million. It was then decided that the businessman will go to an Asian country to buy some equipment with the complainant’s share of the capital, which was KD 250,000. The businessman said he will go to Iraq from the Asian country to make the arrangements. Shortly after, the complainant received a call from a person speaking in Iraqi dialect claiming that the businessman was kidnapped by a gang and that it will release him if a sum of KD 30,000 was paid in ransom.
After the complainant paid the sum, he received another call, saying the gang needs another KD 20,000 and that a person will come to collect the sum. At this juncture, the complainant decided to file a police complaint. Policemen advised him to pretend to comply with the gang’s wish and swooped on the person who came to collect the money at Salmiya market.
During investigations, the culprit admitted the charges and disclosed the whereabouts of the businessman.

Trio swindles Kuwaitis: Personnel from the General Department for Criminal Investigation have arrested three people — one Iraqi and two citizens of an unidentified Gulf state — for cheating 50 Kuwaitis to the tune of KD 15,000, reports Al-Anba daily.
However, the daily added although the suspects have admitted to committing 50 crimes, only 15 cases have been recorded at various police stations.
Most of the cases filed by the victims are against companies for selling booking in their names illusory chalets and taking advance payment. The daily added police interrogations led to the arrest of the leader of the gang — the Iraqi man.
During interrogation he admitted to the charge and led police to the two accomplices. The trio has been referred to the authorities.

Huge debt unpaid: Police have arrested an unidentified Kuwaiti man for failing to pay KD 98,000. However, the daily did not say to whom the man owes the money, reports Al-Anba daily.
The daily added the man was arrested by a police patrol in Hawalli for drunken driving and while they were checking his name on police computer, securitymen discovered he had been sentenced in absentia.
The man has been handed over to the Sentences Enforcement Department.

Friend’s help in vain: Police have detained for interrogation a lieutenant working for the Ministry of Interior for allegedly attempting to help a citizen, who has a travel ban on him, to leave the country, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily. Reports show the man is banned for travel because there are many cases against him.
According to reports the lieutenant, believed to be the friend of the suspect, took his passport and got it stamped but did not enter the information into the computer.
However, the suspect’s former wife who knew about his travel plans had informed the authorities in advance because he owes her money and the latter put the man under surveillance and caught him red-handed as he was about to make his exit.