Fugitive's fall case investigated

Manama, Feb. 21 (BNA): Chief Prosecutor Ahmed Al-Buainain said that the Public Prosecution had received a report by the Sitra Police Station indicating that an individual had sheltered, in his home, a fugitive serving a life term and other sentences in terrorist cases, including premeditated murder, attempted murder, and making explosives. During a raid in Nuweidrat to arrest the convict and the person sheltering him, the two wanted men tried to escape by going up to the roof and jumping onto the roof of the adjacent house. However, the convicted fugitive fell off the roof and was injured. He was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The individual who was accused of sheltering him was arrested. The chief prosecutor said that the Public Prosecution had examined the scene and visited the morgue along a forensic expert who examined the body of the deceased. The forensic report concluded that the death was caused by the injuries to the head and chest, the fractures in the skull, chest ribs and the right wrist resulting from the fall from a high place, as well as the brain hemorrhage, chest cavity and shock associated with it. The Public Prosecution questioned the other individual who admitted hiding the convict in his house despite knowing that he had escaped from prison. The suspect told the Public Prosecution that during the police raid, he and the convicted fugitive rushed to the roof of his house and then moved to the roof of the adjacent house where they hid behind a water tank. He was arrested while his companion jumped from the top of the roof and fell on the ground. The Public Prosecution remanded him in custody pending further investigations and the completion of the technical report ahead of referring the case to the court.