Murder of teenager: Accused arrested, interrogated

Manama : A twenty-year-old Bahraini man was arrested and interrogated for stabbing an Arab national to death in the eastern suburbs of the Capital late on Wednesday.

The defendant reportedly stabbed the 18-year-old Sudanese victim twice in the chest and abdomen. The assault occurred during a brawl that occurred in a yard in Hoora, killing the victim on the spot.

Family and Child Prosecution Chief Attorney Amina Isa confirmed in a statement issued on Thursday that the defendant was arrested by the Capital Police Directorate (Hoora Police Station) shortly after the incident took place and that he was interrogated by the prosecution on the next day of the murder.

“Hoora Police Station reported that a previous dispute led to a brawl that broke out between a number of individuals in an open yard in Hoora on Wednesday night. The matter escalated when the defendant initially threatened the victim with a knife and later stabbed him twice, once in the left of the chest and then on the same side of the abdomen, resulting in the latter’s death,” the Chief Attorney said in the statement.

She explained further saying, “The Public Prosecution initiated its investigations immediately after it was informed of the incident, as it moved to the crime scene and examined  the body of the victim. The victim’s body was examined by an official coroner who stated in his report that the death occurred as a result of a chest wound, resulting in a myocardial rupture.”

Isa added that the defendant confessed to his crime in the interrogations of the prosecution, which ordered to detain him while further investigations continue in order to refer him to the criminal court.

The victim was identified as Abdullah Hameed, a Sudanese resident in Hoora, as confirmed by a close relative.

A relative who preferred anonymity told DT News that “the dispute initially began between the victim and the defendant on Tuesday night in the camping area in Sakhir”, adding that “he was ambushed by the killer and five of his relatives in Hoora” and that “they were friends”.

The victim’s body was laid to its last resting place in Manama Graveyard on Thursday afternoon. He is survived by his parents, two younger brothers and a younger sister.