KUWAIT CITY, March 2: A Sri Lankan man was arrested for murdering a compatriot woman by setting her on fire while she was sleeping inside an apartment shared by them.In a press statement issued by Ministry of Interior, the General Department of Public Relations and Security Media explained that, when the Operations Room of Ministry of Interior received information about a flat on fire, securitymen rushed to the location with paramedics and firefighters. A woman who was inside the burning flat was rescued and referred to Babtain Hospital due to the serious burns she sustained.However, she eventually died. After firefighters extinguished the fire, securitymen examined the location and questioned witnesses, who revealed that they heard the victim shouting for help but were unable to help her because of the heavy smoke and fire. They revealed that she was living in the flat with a Sri Lankan man. When securitymen tried to find the man, they realized he was missing. After intensive investigations, they managed to track him down and noticed that he had sustained burns on his hands and feet. When questioned about it, he said the woman had committed suicide by setting herself on fire and that he sustained the burns while trying to rescue her.However, securitymen were not convinced by his testimony and further interrogated him. He eventually confessed that he poured highly inflammable liquid on her while she was sleeping and then set her on fire. In the process, he sustained the burns but he managed to run away. The suspect was arrested and referred to the concerned authorities for necessary legal action.Salary letters forged: Personnel from the Criminal Investigations Department have arrested a bedoun for forging salary certificates of citizens working in the public sector to help them get loans from companies and to purchase goods on installments, reports a local Arabic daily. A security source said according to the investigations the bedoun charged between KD 300 and KD 500 for each forged document. Police then set a trap for the man and caught him red-handed while forging a salary certificate and changing the KD 1,250 amount on the certificate to KD 1,900. Police have seized from the man different seals used by government bodies.Good Samaritan loses it: Police are looking for a Kuwaiti for luring a compatriot woman, who is believed to be in her 40s to commit ‘adultery’, reports Al-Anba daily. The woman in her complaint to the Qadsiya Police Station said this happened when one of her car tires burst on the Cairo Street opposite the Qadsiya Sports Club. She added the Kuwaiti stopped, offered help and replaced the tire. She added, she thanked him for his help but she was shocked when the man handed her his telephone number and his account on social media and requested her to send him her picture without hijab and short dress. The woman has provided police details about the suspect’s vehicle and his cell phone number.