SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2017 RABI AL-THANI 5, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Commuters IS attack kills Armless Syrian Defoe punishes face increase dozens in boy thrives in US, Liverpool, in bus fares Baghdad as hopes family Man Utd sink in new 3year Hollande7 visits can join9 him Hammers20 Customs chief ‘sacked’ Min 10º Max 19º High Tide over booze containers 01:00 & 14:26 Low Tide MPs warn minister over sports suspension 08:12 & 20:18 40 PAGES NO: 17099 150 FILS By B Izzak IS claims Istanbul attack, gunman at large KUWAIT: In a major development, Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh yesterday issued a decision sending the ISTANBUL: Islamic State militants yesterday claimed the director of the customs department Khaled Al-Saif into shooting rampage at a glamorous Istanbul nightclub on retirement following a controversy over two containers New Year’s night that killed 39, while police arrested that left Shuwaikh Port without being searched, and eight suspects but the attacker remained on the run. which were later found to contain liquor. The minister’s The statement by the extremist group - which Turkey decision came after a number of MPs strongly con- is fighting in neighboring Syria - was the first undisputed demned the incident and called for a parliamentary claim it has made for an attack in Turkey despite being investigation, while other lawmakers called for the sack- blamed for several assaults ing of the customs chief. over the last year. Before the retirement decision was announced, Anti-terror police made Islamist opposition MP Mohammad Hayef said that dis- their first arrests over the missing the customs head was the least the minister attack, which unleashed should do regarding the two containers. He said that scenes of panic among par- allowing the containers to leave unchecked from the tygoers at one of Istanbul’s port constituted a security risk to the country, because swankiest venues and killed the nature of the shipment was unknown and could mostly foreign tourists. have included some dangerous materials. Social media The shooting took place activists also wondered why the owner of the shipment just 75 minutes into 2017 was not identified or arrested. after a bloody year in Turkey The interior ministry said the two containers were Handout police photo in which hundreds of people later found in Amghara and were full of liquor. Police shows the main suspect were killed in violence identified five suspects, all of whom are Indian nation- in the rampage. blamed on both IS jihadists als, and the main suspect was nabbed as he attempted and Kurdish militants. In a to leave the country on Saturday. His accomplice was statement circulated on social media, the jihadist group also detained in the country, while another was appre- said one of the “soldiers of the caliphate” had carried out hended in the UAE. Two other suspects managed to flee the attack on the Reina nightclub. It accused Turkey, a to India, the ministry statement said. Interrogations majority-Muslim country, of being a servant of Christians, with the suspects disclosed that they had previously in a possible reference to Ankara’s alliance with the inter- smuggled in another container, and alcohol and fire- national coalition fighting IS in Syria and Iraq. ISTANBUL: People carry the coffin of Yunus Gormek, 23, one of the victims of the Reina nightclub attack, crackers were found inside it, the statement added. Continued on Page 13 during his funeral ceremony yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 News Kuwait aims to emulate PAGE Packers, Lions in playoffs; PAGE in brief financial hub Shanghai Chiefs, Falcons earn byes Parents handed 3 death sentence 60 killed, beheaded in Brazil riot for killing child MANAUS, Brazil: Rioting inmates in Brazil decapitated and lot of violence,” Fontes told a press conference. He said the KUWAIT: A court yesterday sentenced a couple to brutally assaulted their rivals, killing at least 60, when fighting gruesome scene appeared aimed at sending a message death after finding them guilty of torturing their three- erupted between two gangs at a prison in the Amazon from the Family of the North (FDN), a powerful local gang, year-old daughter until she died, it said in a statement. region, officials said yesterday. The 17-hour riot broke out to rivals from the First Capital Command (PCC), one of The parents, both Kuwaitis, were arrested in May and Sunday afternoon and lasted through the night at a prison on Brazil’s largest gangs, whose base is in Sao Paulo, some accused of beating and torturing the girl until she died the outskirts of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, said 2,700 km to the southeast. and then keeping her body in a freezer for a week. The state public security secretary Sergio Fontes. He called it “the “During the negotiations (to end the riot), the prisoners court statement only gave the verdict but, according to biggest massacre” ever committed at a prison in the state. had almost no demands,” Fontes told local radio network media reports at the time of their arrest, they had been Bloodied and burned bodies were stacked in a concrete Tiradentes. “We think they had already done what they annoyed by their daughter’s constant crying. The prison yard and piled in carts, an AFP photographer at the wanted: kill members of the rival organization.” father, 26-year-old Salem Buhan, and mother, 23-year- scene said. Outside, heavily armed police hunted for Authorities have counted 60 bodies so far, all of them old Amira Hussein, were charged with murder after inmates feared to have escaped through a series of tunnels inmates, the head of the state’s prisons administration, police found burn marks on the shoulders and legs of discovered at the Anisio Jobim penitentiary complex. Pedro Florencio, told journalists. It was the latest eruption the toddler’s body, according to the interior ministry. Fontes said 16 tunnels were discovered in all. He told jour- of horrific violence to hit Brazil’s underfunded and over- The ministry also said they were drug addicts. The ver- nalists that authorities were still trying to determine crowded prisons. In October, deadly riots broke out at dict is not final as it must be reviewed by the appeals whether any inmates had escaped. Brazilian news site G1 three separate prisons blamed on fighting between mem- and supreme courts. reported that more than 130 had escaped. bers of the country’s two largest gangs, the PCC and the Police were only able to restore order at the prison yes- Red Command (CV). During that episode, rioting inmates terday morning, freeing 12 guards who had been taken took visitors hostage, beheaded rivals and burned others MANAUS, Brazil: Military police officers collect the Dubai to build largest hostage, Fontes said. They found a horrific scene inside. alive, killing 33 people in all, authorities said. bodies of inmates killed during a riot at the Anisio marina in Middle East “Many (victims) were decapitated, and they all suffered a Continued on Page 13 Jobim Penitentiary Complex yesterday. — AFP DUBAI: The Gulf emirate of Dubai yesterday announced plans to build the largest marina in the Middle East and North Africa with 1,400 berths. The For Trump, the 1980s “Dubai Harbour” will also feature a cruise ship port and a terminal that can accommodate 6,000 pas- sengers at a time, a government statement said. Home to Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower, still hold relevance Dubai said the new project will include a 135-m lighthouse featuring a hotel and observation deck. NEW YORK: Bobby Knight. Don King. Sylvester Stallone. The marina will expand Dubai’s yacht capacity by Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s cultural touch- around 50 percent from its current 3,000 berths, the stones, which he’d frequently name-drop at campaign statement said. The project will be located off the rallies and on Twitter, were at their peak in the 1980s - upmarket Dubai Marina neighborhood and next to the decade Trump’s celebrity status rose in New York, the man-made Palm Island. Trump Tower was built, “The Art of the Deal” was pub- lished and he first flirted with running for public office. The “Go Go 1980s” of New York were spurred by Wall Iran denies receiving Street’s rise. It was a brash decade in which excess was invite for hajj talks the norm and ostentatious displays of wealth and pow- TEHRAN: Iran has denied receiving any invitation from er were celebrated in pop culture and among Saudi Arabia for talks on the hajj, after a row between the Manhattan’s elite. And while much of what defined the arch-foes saw its pilgrims stay at home last year. The Al- 1980s has since gone out of style, Trump has seemingly Hayat daily reported on Friday that Saudi pilgrims minister internalized its ethos, which is reflected in the decor of Mohammed Bentin had opened discussions with more the Trump Tower lobby and the celebrities he stood than 80 countries, including Iran, to work out the details of alongside during the campaign. the 2017 hajj. “No invitation from Saudi Arabia has been An outer-borough New York developer trying to received by Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization or the prove himself across the East River, Trump always foreign ministry,” the head of the Hajj Organization, Hamid sought approval of Manhattan’s ruling class and was Mohammadi, was quoted as saying in Iranian media eager to make a name for himself, according to those reports yesterday. Once the invitation was received, who tangled with him during that formative decade.