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Man keeps poison handy as he hides from police in car
A 57-year-old man is living in his car in the mountainous area of Al Munaei, Ras Al Khaimah, due to fear of being arrested for loan default.
- By Nasouh Nazzal, Staff Reporter
- Published: 13:22 January 24, 2008
Ras Al Khaimah: A 57-year-old man is living in his car in the mountainous area of Al Munaei, Ras Al Khaimah, due to fear of being arrested for loan default.
"I am in debt of Dh480,000. I have taken a bank loan to get one of my sons married and the rest of the money I borrowed to renovate my house," said Khalifa Ahmad Humaid Saleh Al Dahmani, an Emirati resident of Dubai.
"I prefer death to detention. I have a bottle of poison kept ready to commit suicide before the police get closer to me," said Al Dahmani, a government employee who was sacked for long absence from work.
"I have suffered the heat of the summer, heavy rain and the cool mountainous weather and my own family refuse to help me," said the father of four working sons.
Al Dahmani does not know what the future holds for him.
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