A teenager was stabbed to death during a fight yesterday in Sabah Al-Nasser. The victim, a Kuwaiti, had an altercation with a stranger that escalated when the latter took a knife out of his car, stabbed the victim and fled the scene, according to eyewitnesses’ reports. Passersby rushed the victim to Farwaniya Hospital where he was pronounced dead due to severe blood loss.

The alleged killer later turned himself in at a Jahra police station, and told police there that he was acting in self-defense. He said that the teenager was the one who had the knife, adding that he managed to pin him to the ground, took away the knife and attacked him. The suspect, also a Kuwaiti, had a stab wound on his hand. The victim was stabbed in the heart. The suspect was remanded in custody pending further action.