An Asian delivery worker has been hospitalised after he was stabbed while doing his job in the Kuwaiti capital, a local newspaper has said, in the latest such attack reported in the country.
The victim was taken to a local hospital where he was found to have been subjected to two stab wounds, Al Anba reported, quoting a security source.
The worker said the restaurant management had assigned him to deliver a meal to a client in Kuwait City, but the person who received the order stabbed him and fled after stealing the meal without paying the bill.
The source said the assailant had been identified and would be arrested within hours.
Late last month, Kuwaiti media reported that police were investigating a legal complaint lodged by another delivery worker, who claimed he had been subjected to beating and strangulation from an angry client in Al Shaab area, part of the Hawally governorate.
The expat worker said he had been assailed by the man, who had also dragged him into his residence for no apparent reason.
The attacker had purportedly strangled the 23-year-old worker before letting him go.
“Upon arriving at the address, I was surprised by the client dragging me by my clothes into the apartment, beating, and strangling me,” the worker was quoted as saying.
The complainant furnished police with the alleged assailant’s phone number and physical features, as well as a medical report detailing the assault.
