Woman shoots Riggae rapist

An unidentified man was shot to death when he tried to rape a Kuwaiti woman in the Riggae area duing the afternoon of July 12.

A statement by the Kuwaiti minister of the interior said that the Kuwaiti woman, identified only as Al-H, was using the lift in her building at 1:15 p.m. when the man entered the lift and threatened her with a knife.

The man asked the woman to undress, but she started screaming. The screams were heard by her husband, a security man, who rushed to help her.

A scuffle took place between the two men and the security man's licensed gun fell to the ground. The woman picked up the gun and shot the assailant. The man was immediately rushed to hospital but he died on the way.

An hour earlier, another Kuwaiti woman had informed the police that an unidentified man had tried to rape her. The description given by her matched the dead man.

On the same day a Russian woman, also complained to the police that an unidentified man had tried to rape her.

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