ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 2 December 2013 28 Moharram 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5901 Price: QR2 Ezdan Holding, McIlroy beats Sharp Corp Scott to win sign MoU Australian Open Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Boy in coma as Four killed in New York train accident car hits open manhole at QU Father blames Ashghal for mishap DOHA: An open manhole near authorities concerned to cover the the women’s entrance of Qatar manhole by putting a slab and on University led to a tragic car top and cementing it. The cover accident late last Thursday later caved in and the manhole evening in which a young Qatari was left menacingly open again, boy was critically injured and is said the man. lying in hospital in a coma. Earlier, the Messaieed road was The boy suffered fractures notorious for its nightmarish and in his skull and internal bleed- dangerous open manholes and ing in his brain, his father told now they are common on Doha Qatar Radio’s popular call-in roads so much so that one is at programme, Good Morning, My the very entrance of the women’s Beloved Country, yesterday. entrance of Qatar University, he In an emotionally charged said. voice, he said he was driving past In the past one year at least the women’s entrance of Qatar two cases have been reported in University a little after 9.30 on which small children fell in open Emergency workers gather at the site of a Metro-North train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York yesterday. At least four people were Thursday night when his car manholes and died. killed and 63 injured, including 11 critically, in the accident. See also page 10 suddenly hit an open manhole A three-year-old Omani girl and was dangerously flung off slipped into an open sewer man- the road in an instant due to the hole in Al Wakra and died early impact. last January. Workers from a His son who was in the car suf- contracting company were doing Population in fered severe injuries in his head some maintenance work in a MERS in camels no cause for panic and broke his skull, he said. “He housing compound and had left Qatar 2.068m is having internal bleeding in his the manhole open. DOHA: Discovery of animals live together will soon Qataris and two expatriates have brain.” It was around sunset that a three MERS (Middle East be launched with this objective. died due to the disease. DOHA: Qatar’s population con- The man said he wondered girl fell in it while playing. The Respiratory Syndrome) cases in No fresh MERS cases have been Al Thani said the relation tinues to surge and reached who should be blamed for the workers put the lid back on the camels in a farm in Qatar is no detected in the country among between animals and humans in over 2.068 million (206,8050) by accident. “Should we com- manhole and left, leaving her to cause for panic since MERS is animals or humans. the spread of the virus is still not November-end, thanks to a heav- plain against the Public Works perish. not a killer disease and the risk Addressing a press confer- known. ier influx of foreign workers for Authority (Ashghal) or should In a similar incident last of death due the virus is on the ence yesterday Dr Mohammed The three camels were found the mega development projects. we raise an accusing finger at September a five-year-old decline, the Supreme Council of Al Thani, director of the Public infected following random The population by the end of the (municipal) Minister or his Indian boy fell into a manhole Health (SCH) said yesterday. Health Department at SCH said tests conducted in a farm in Al October was 2.024 million and in subordinates?” and died. In light of the new finding, the MERS is not a killer disease and Shahaniya where 14 camels are the previous month of September, “Ashghal engineers should be A criminal court recently SCH in collaboration with the all the patients who died following living. Two people associated with it was slightly higher at 2.035 held accountable and sent for convicted the contracting com- Ministry of Environment and the infection were suffering from the farm were also tested posi- million. police investigation.” pany worker of negligence for Al the World Health Organisation other chronic diseases. tive which led to testing the ani- The population has increased According to him, a Qatar Wakra incident and sentenced (WHO) has started precaution- Qatar and Saudi Arabia are the mals. All the camels in the farm by a huge over 231,000 in the past University employee had one of him to three months in jail and ary measures to prevent spread only countries where the disease were locally bred and they have 11 months. In other words, by and his car tyres punctured after hit- fined his employers and asked of the disease among animals as has been detected in animals. no history of mingling with other large, that many freshly-recruited ting this open manhole nearly a them to pay blood money of well as humans. In Qatar, nine people and three animals. workers have arrived here this month ago. QR200,000. A nationwide survey focus- camels have been tested positive THE PENINSULA year. The incident prompted the THE PENINSULA ing on areas where people and for the virus until now. Three Continued on page 5 The population by December 2012-end was 1.83 million. The increase works out to over 12 Fast and Furious percent in less than a year. actor killed Releasing the November population figure, the Ministry Qatari likely to replace of Development Planning and Statistics said the data repre- sented people who were in the country as on November 30. Keulen at DCMF The figure does not include peo- ple, both nationals and expatri- DOHA: A Qatari director is his employment contract and the ates, who were out of the country likely to replace the Dutch head centre’s rules and regulations. “The on that date, said the Ministry. of the Doha Centre for Media answer was negative and instead I The male-female ratio contin- Freedom (DCMF) who has been was asked to resign. Less than a ues to be imbalanced as the popu- given marching orders. week after this I was sacked.” lation comprised 1.53 million men Jan Keulen said in a statement Keulen said since the news of his and only 533,674 women. yesterday he was suddenly fired as exit broke he had received a large THE PENINSULA director of the DCMF following a number of messages of support. dispute with its board over the pro- “Many of our staff members are Egypt panel raises cedure of payments. “For some time more or less in shock and worried there had been problems in the about the continuation of the pro- doubt over transition centre, regarding the procedure of grammes and activities the Centre payments. I asked the chairman of is involved in.” Keulen added that CAIRO: The assembly writ- the board to grant me the authority he had been told that a Qatari will ing Egypt’s new constitution to sign for financial transactions.” arrive in the coming days as his voted yesterday against an Keulen said he should have been replacement. article requiring parliamen- Firefighters extinguish the fire in a car in which Fast and Furious actor Paul Walker was killed along with another given that authority according to THE PENINSULA tary elections to be held before unidentified man during a crash in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, yesterday. See also The Peninsula Plus presidential elections, raising uncertainty about the country’s political transition timetable. Thirty-three members of the 50-member assembly named by Circus show cancelled after leopard attacks boy interim President Adly Mansour voted against the article, meaning they will have to redraft it. DOHA: A circus show at Hyatt leopard, according to Al Sharq. and chest and underwent a surgery allow people to take photos with Global Entertainments Group, Some members of the assembly Plaza has been cancelled after The circus also had other ani- at the Hamad General Hospital on the animals and artists. The leop- featured shows and acts by had been calling for presidential a six-year-old Qatari boy was mals including white lions, tigers, the same day, it has been learnt. ard was chained and had a collar world-famous performers from elections to be held before parlia- attacked and hurt by a baby snakes and Dalmatians. “The incident didn’t take place at which was locked, but unfortu- countries such as the UK, Russia, mentary elections. leopard on Saturday evening. The boy was one of the visitors the event venue but in the lobby nately it attacked the boy,” he said. Spain, Italy, Ecuador, Uzbekistan, The constitution, expected to The leopard was one of the at the show and was attacked tent when he tried to take a photo The show was scheduled to run Mongolia and Brazil. be put to a referendum later this attractions of the Royal Circus while he was trying to be photo- with the leopard,” said Mohideen. until the end of December and “We deeply regret what hap- month, is part of an army-planned which was being held at the graphed with the leopard after The boy was accompanied by its organisers are not connetcted pened and have cancelled the political transition envisaged premises of the shopping complex the show, Hyatt Plaza General his mother.