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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2014 JAMADA ALTHANI 27, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Salvage crew Qaeda chief Dancing to a Four-star removes 13 calls for different tune: United launch boats from kidnapping The Bollywood Giggs era Fahaheel6 marina Westerners11 superhero40 in20 style Two Indian guards killed Max 40º Min 24º in brazen armed robbery High Tide 08:59 & 20:37 Assailants escape with KD 13,000 Getaway car set on fire Low Tide • 02:18 & 14:38 40 PAGES NO: 16148 150 FILS By Sajeev K Peter and Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: A three-member gang of armed robbers shot dead two Indian guards before escaping with KD 13,000 in cash late Friday near the Sulaibiya vegetable market. Later yesterday, police claimed they had identified the perpetrators and expected to arrest them “within hours”. Sharangdharan, 55, who hailed from the Calicut district of Kerala, was shot in the chest and died on the spot, while Muhammad Rashid Jamalullali Thangal, 25, from the Malappuram district of Thangal Kerala, was shot in the head and suc- cumbed to his injuries at Farwaniya Hospital. Both were working as security personnel with a leading private security company in Kuwait. According to sources, the guards - tasked with depositing the day’s collec- tion of a supermarket at the bank via ATM - were attacked by the assailants as they walked towards their security van with KUWAIT: (Left) The body of a security guard lies in a pool of blood after he was killed in an armed robbery in Sulaibiya late Friday. the cash chest. The gunmen, reportedly (Right) The charred car that is suspected to have been used by the assailants. in black attire, fired at them at close range and escaped with the chest containing KD 13,000, leaving the victims in pools of blood. The crime took place around 10.30 Municipality unveils grand plans pm on Friday. Sharangdharan The suspects did not attempt to break Jain told Kuwait Times that the embassy KUWAIT: The Municipality yesterday said it is into the armored van that reportedly con- is in touch with the Interior Ministry over transitioning to a stage of strategic and digital tained as much as KD 200,000 in cash, the shocking incident. “We will do all planning based on technical studies and according to reports from the scene. The what is required in coordination with the research through the development of three driver was in the van during the incident, Kuwaiti authorities,” he said. The Interior major projects. The Municipality’s deputy but was unharmed. Preliminary investiga- Ministry later held a meeting with securi- director general for zoning and planning tions indicate that the suspects fired 36 ty companies in Kuwait to discuss ways to Waleed Al-Jassem said the most important rounds from an AK-47 during the attack. avoid similar incidents in the future. project among the three is reviewing and A heavy security presence was reported Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al- upgrading the state’s structural plan in order at the scene following the crime. Sources Khaled Al-Sabah also sent condolences to to set a general framework for future develop- also said that a car that was found ablaze the victims’ families. ment on three levels - starting at the state lev- on the Sixth Ring Road near Sulaibiya was Incidents of armed robberies and el as a whole, then the urban area and then discovered to be stolen and may have assaults have often been reported in the city level. Jassem said a structural plan is been the getaway vehicle used by the Kuwait, although criminal acts involving usually prepared over 20 to 30 years, then assailants. armed gangs gunning down their victims reviewed every five years to adjust its path so Meanwhile, Indian Ambassador Sunil for money are rare in the country. that it aligns with changes, adding that the total cost of this project has reached nearly KD 2 million. He said the second project is developing a Obama voices solidarity geographical information system (GIS) of the state. He explained this is one of the most on missing Malaysia jet important achievements of the structural plan. Jassem said the GIS is reviewed for land KUALA LUMPUR: Barack Obama yes- Hishammuddin Hussein said Obama use and planning purposes, adding that data terday became the first sitting US presi- told him he knows “it is a tough, long, and information at all state ministries were KUWAIT: An artist’s rendering provided by dent in nearly 50 years to visit moder- road ahead”. “We’ll work together. There ate-Muslim Malaysia, where he quickly is always support,” Hishammuddin said collected to form an electronic database. the Municipality shows the futuristic sky- expressed solidarity with his hosts over the US leader told him at a humid Jassem said the structural plan recom- line of Kuwait with modern buildings and the mystery of missing flight MH370. arrival ceremony under grey skies mended that an integrated GIS be formed in a planned streets. (Right) Image shows the way that the state is divided into zones of 10 Obama touched down on the third leg punctuated with a crashing formal field zones of a geographical information system of a four nation Asia tour designed to gun salute. “I’m very happy to hear km x 10 km for areas beyond the borders of envisioned by the Municipality. — KUNA the urban area, and 1 km x 1 km within the showcase his “rebalance” of US (this) because it is a long journey.” urban area. The information is then divided at ing systems of Kuwait. He said all civilized resources to the dynamic region, but Obama’s tour reaffirms his view that various levels such as the state level, gover- counties in the world have a clear guide for which has been repeatedly interrupted the United States is a key Pacific power in norates, the urban area and Kuwait City. He planning and building and it is considered a by foreign policy crises from Ukraine to a region where US allies are discomfort- said the estimated total cost of this project is reference for all laws and construction rules, the Middle East. ed by the rise of China and where mar- around KD 600,000. adding all land uses can be reviewed through Obama arrived on what is his first- itime tensions have disrupted years of Jassem said that the third development this project. He said the total cost of this proj- ever visit to Malaysia with the country relative calm between nations. He also project is a guide for the planning and build- ect is nearly KD 1.27 million. — KUNA under uncomfortable scrutiny over its had tough words for Pyongyang yester- handling of tragedy over the airliner day, telling cheering US troops in Seoul which vanished on March 8 with 239 that the North’s iron rule and belligerent Egypt reports first case of MERS virus people aboard. Transport Minister threats were signs of weakness. — AFP CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have detected respiratory syndrome, which killed some Monday as officials struggle to alleviate pub- the first case of a dangerous SARS-like virus 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. lic concerns amid a spike in infections. in the country, the state news agency said MERS can cause symptoms such as fever, Yesterday, the new health minister, Adel yesterday. MENA said a 27-year-old civil breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney Faqih, announced that the country was engineer was diagnosed yesterday morning failure. There is no vaccine or treatment for reserving three medical centers in several after returning from Saudi Arabia, where the MERS virus, and it is still unclear how it cities for treating MERS cases exclusively, as the Middle East respiratory syndrome, or is transmitted. It also has been detected in part of a nation-wide plan for containing the MERS, has been centered. It said the man Asia and Europe. disease’s spread. In a statement on the min- was quarantined upon his arrival at Cairo Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry said late istry’s website, Faqih said the centers would airport Friday and transported to a nearby Friday that five more people in the kingdom be equipped with the latest medical tech- hospital. have died from MERS. The ministry says 92 nologies for diagnosing and treating the MERS belongs to a family of viruses people have died and 313 have contracted virus. He also said he plans to invite experts KUALA LUMPUR: US President Barack Obama (second right) stands with known as coronaviruses that include both the virus in Saudi since September 2012. from Germany, Britain, France and the Malaysian King Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah (second left), Malaysian the common cold and SARS, or severe acute King Abdullah fired his health minister United States to study the outbreak. — AP Queen Haminah Hamidun and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak before a state dinner at the National Palace yesterday. — AP SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2014 LOCAL Photo of the day KUWAIT: Municipality officials and police at Amghara scrap yard follow up with clean up operations at the area following the scrap’s relocation to Al-Na’ayem area recently.—Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh South Africans celebrate 20 years of democracy A product of people’s struggles By Staff Reporter solidate and strengthen bilateral political and with international reach has also invested bene- economic cooperation. ficially in South Africa and the wider Southern Sheikha Fariha touts women’s KUWAIT: South Africans in Kuwait and world- South Africa’s relations with the Gulf States Africa region. The State of Kuwait has left a posi- wide will celebrate their country’s 20 years of have also expanded significantly since the estab- tive footprint in Africa as an investment partner economic management skills Freedom and democracy today while simultane- lishment of South Africa’s democratic order in by contributing to Africa’s sustainable socio eco- ously exercising their right to vote in South 1994.