RAJAB 22, 1439 AH SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2018 Max 30º 32 Pages Min 21º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17501 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net US Embassy and Kuwait Dive Fresh regime raids pound Al-Safat posts profit Stunning United fightback 2 Team organize beach cleanup 6 Douma after talks falter 17 for 3rd year in a row 16 makes City wait for title Palestinians bury dead, including journalist, killed by Israeli fire Thousands march for Gaza • US rejects Kuwaiti statement on violence GAZA CITY: Palestinian mourners in the Gaza Strip yesterday buried their dead, including a journalist, after Israeli troops killed nine during the latest border clash- es in a week of bloodshed. Thousands of protesters approached the border fence around Gaza for a second Friday in a row, burning tyres and hurling stones at Israeli forces, who responded with tear gas and live ammunition. In addition to the nine dead, at least 491 were wounded by Israeli gunfire, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said. Israel said there were around 20,000 protesters and that they were seeking to breach the border. Numbers were down from the previous Friday, when tens of thousands approached the border in demonstrations that saw Israeli forces kill 19 Palestinians, making it the bloodiest day in Gaza since a 2014 war. The demonstra- tions largely abated by yesterday, but three Palestinians were wounded by Israeli forces in a small clash east of Gaza City in the afternoon, one of them seriously, according to the Palestinian health ministry. No Israelis LONDON: Ultraorthodox Jewish anti-Zionism protesters join a demonstration on GAZA: Demonstrators assist Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja during clashes were injured on either day and the latest deaths have Whitehall opposite Downing Street in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with Israeli security forces following a protest near the border with Israel east of sparked fresh calls for an investigation. yesterday. — AFP Khan Younis on Friday. — AFP Continued on Page 11 these people have injuries that are critical in nature,” Highway 35 about 28 km north of the town of Tisdale, a News in brief Canada shaken as the RCMP said. They gave no information about the trading center in an overwhelmingly agricultural region status of the truck driver. Darren Opp, president of the of the western province. The team was heading north Six men rape boy Nipawin Hawks, was quoted by the Globe and Mail for a Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League playoff game 14 killed in youth newspaper as saying the truck had T-boned the play- against the Nipawin Hawks. Police gave no indication of KUWAIT: Six Asian men kidnapped and raped a ers’ bus. “It’s a horrible accident, my God,” he said. “It’s the cause, but early yesterday special police investiga- nine-year-old Egyptian boy who was playing in the very, very bad. There’s uncles and moms and dads wait- tors were still at the scene, which is roughly 150 km yard of the building where he lives in Khaitan. The hockey bus crash ing to hear whether their sons and nephews are OK.” east of Prince Albert City. six men took the boy to an isolated area and took MONTREAL: Hockey-mad Canada was in mourning Citing relatives, the Canadian Press reported that The Saskatchewan league is a feeder system for turns raping him. The boy returned home in shock yesterday after a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team the Broncos’ head coach Darcy Haugan and the team’s higher levels of hockey, with many graduating to play at and informed his parents. His father took him to the collided with a semi-trailer truck in Saskatchewan 20-year-old captain, Logan Schatz, were among those US and Canadian colleges and major junior league lev- hospital and then went to the police. Khaitan province, killing 14 people. In a country where love of killed. Many social media users posted Haugan’s pho- el, while some go on to the National Hockey League. detectives began an intensive search for the cul- the sport is almost a religion, the crash sparked an out- tograph alongside messages of shock and sympathy, Similar leagues operate throughout the country, their prits and arrested some of them. — Al-Rai pouring of grief among players and fans on social and the hashtags #prayersforhumboldt and #hum- buses a regular feature of the vast country’s highways. media, while national political leaders expressed their boldtstrong. “God bless Darcy Haugan for being an “It is a significant accident; we had a tractor trailer and sympathies. “We can now confirm 14 people have died incredible mentor and coach to young hockey players a bus collide,” RCMP Inspector Ted Monro told a press Youth rapes student as a result of this collision,” the Royal Canadian and prayers for his family to help cope with their conference, declining to give details about the victims. Mounted Police said in a statement. immense loss,” the Western Provinces Hockey The STARS Air Ambulance service said two of its heli- KUWAIT: An Indian youth convinced a 16-year- Of the total 29 people on the team bus, including the Association wrote on Twitter. copters flew to the scene. old student to skip school after telling her he wants driver, 15 were taken to hospital with injuries. “Three of The crash took place at around 5:00 pm Friday on Continued on Page 11 to take her on a picnic, but instead took her to his Hawally flat, where he raped her. He then dropped her back to school before disappearing. The girl he was driven at high speed to Jodhpur informed her father, who lodged a complaint at the Fans jubilant as airport to a waiting chartered jet. police station. Detectives arrested the suspect, who He flew to Mumbai where more will be sent to the public prosecution. — Al-Rai crowds - with many men emulating Salman Khan Khan’s distinctive hairstyle and clothes - gathered outside his luxury apartment, freed on bail dancing to songs from his films. Khan appeared on the terrace of his apartment JODHPUR, India: Bollywood superstar with his family and waved to his fans. A Salman Khan left prison yesterday after judge released Khan, one of the world’s being granted bail so he can contest a highest-paid actors, in return for bail and five-year jail sentence for killing rare sureties totaling 100,000 rupees antelopes. Hundreds of frenzied fans ($1,500). He cannot leave India without awaited the 52-year-old as his vehicle court permission. sped through the gates of Jodhpur Hordes of fans outside the court Central Jail, where the action star had erupted in celebration on hearing the spent two nights after being sentenced result, beating drums and chanting on Thursday. Some tried to cling to the Khan’s name. Khan did not attend the sides of his sports utility vehicle and bail hearing but prosecutor Mahipal MUMBAI: Indian Bollywood actor Salman Khan waves to fans after reaching home scores of motorbikes followed Khan as Continued on Page 11 in Bandra yesterday following his release from Jodhpur central jail. —AFP ‘Mentally ill’ man Fine for drying clothes in balcony smashes van into KUWAIT: Municipal inspectors are inspecting German restaurant buildings in the Capital governorate to fine tenants hanging laundry in balconies to dry in the sun. Such an act is deemed a violation of article four of the MUENSTER, Germany: A man drove a van into a cleanliness charter of ministerial resolution number group of people sitting outside a popular restaurant in 190/2008, as such actions deface the urban land- the old city center of Muenster in western Germany scape. — Hanan Al-Saadoun yesterday, killing at least two of them before shooting himself dead, police said. The vehicle ploughed into people sitting at tables outside the Grosser Kiepenkerl MoCI to strictly enforce law restaurant, which is popular with tourists. “At 15:27 (1327 GMT), a vehicle drove into the outside area of KUWAIT: The ministry of commerce and industry the restaurant ... three people were killed, 20 injured, plans to firmly apply a new law on recruiting house- and six of those seriously injured,” police spokesman hold labor, a senior official warned yesterday. The Andreas Bode said, adding: “The perpetrator killed ministry recently set the cost of employing domes- himself in the vehicle.” tic labor through a company at KD 990 ($3,267) It was not immediately clear whether the perpetrator MUENSTER, Germany: Special police officers and first responders are seen after several people were killed and and KD 390 ($1,287) by individuals. Strict penalties was among the three killed, or whether his death took injured when a car ploughed into diners yesterday. — AFP will be imposed on recruitment companies that do the number of dead to four. A police spokeswoman said not commit to the ceiling imposed by the ministry, separately that there were at least three people dead. A rorist background. The Interior Ministry in the state of clear. Investigators were looking at the possibility that which could amount to a shutdown of the office and security source said the perpetrator was probably North Rhine-Westphalia, home to Muenster, would other suspects fled the scene, though they had no evi- the confiscation of its license. — KUNA German. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung said the man was a neither confirm nor deny the report. dence that this was the case, he added. German with psychological problems who had no ter- Bode said the identity of the perpetrator was not yet Continued on Page 11 2 Established 1961 Local Sunday, April 8, 2018 US Embassy and Kuwait Dive Team organize beach cleanup KUWAIT: A beach cleanup was organized by the US Embassy in collaboration with the Kuwait Dive Team yesterday at Anjafa Beach.