🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Crime & justice, Disasters & accidents
7 storiesDubai Police arrest two suspects over Dh11.8m phone scam
Dubai Police’s Anti-Fraud Centre arrested two suspects accused of phone scams that cost victims more than Dh11.8 million. Investigators said the callers posed as representatives of official and international entities, told victims they were…
UAE foils 14 drug smuggling attempts, seizes over 300kg at airports
UAE authorities say they foiled 14 attempts to smuggle narcotics through airport transit areas, seizing more than 300 kilograms of drugs in less than two months. A joint report by the National Anti-Narcotics Agency and UAE Customs credits c…
UAE prosecutors say flydubai co-pilot attempted terrorist act on Tel Aviv flight
UAE prosecutors say the co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073 attempted to carry out a terrorist act after the Tel Aviv-bound aircraft diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, on September 30. Flight-tracking data shows the plane left Dubai at 07:05, …
Coast Guard finds debris from medical plane missing off Nantucket with six aboard
A Gulfstream G100 medical evacuation jet operated by Canada-based Latitude Air Ambulance went missing on a flight from Bermuda to Boston with six people on board, and the US Coast Guard said it found a debris field confirmed to be associate…
Dubai Crown Prince visits flydubai pilot attacked in cockpit, praises his courage
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai, visited flydubai pilot Captain Smit Machchhar on Saturday and praised his “courage, responsibility and care for human life”, according to the Crown Prince’s post on X. The National reported…
Dubai Police seize 2.3 tonnes of drugs worth Dh115m, arrest 14 suspects
Dubai Police said they arrested 14 suspects, all described as being of Asian ethnicity, and seized 2,323 kilograms of narcotic pills and psychotropic substances with an estimated value of Dh115,191,233 ($31.3 million). The force said the dr…
Kenya: 17 killed as pilgrim van crashes on Nairobi–Mombasa highway
Seventeen people were killed and several others injured in a multiple-vehicle crash in Kenya's Salama area on the highway between Nairobi and Mombasa on Saturday, the National Transport and Safety Authority said. Most of the dead were pilgr…