>From what I understand, Muslims don't believe that man descended from
apes -- they have their own version of Adam and Huwwa (Eve) -- but
clearly that belief does not protect them from falling prey to the
Darwin Awards, and creatively removing themselves from the gene pool...
Saudi Wedding Deaths: 23 Electrocuted As Celebratory Gunfire At Saudi
Nuptials Cuts Cable          RIYADH, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Celebratory
gunfire at a wedding  party in  eastern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night
brought down an  electric cable,  killing 23 people, a local civil
defence  official said.

"At  the wedding, the cable fell on a metal door and the 23  people who
died  were all electrocuted," Eastern Province  official Abdullah
Khashman  said by phone.

A photograph of the aftermath of  the accident, published on  local
newspapers' websites showed a large  courtyard strewn with  fallen
chairs and a pole in the middle supporting  cables  carrying lightbulbs.

All those killed  were from the same tribe, Khashman said.  Thirty
others were injured in  the incident near Abqaiq, a centre  of the Saudi
energy industry.

Saudi  Arabia banned the shooting of firearms at weddings, a  popular 
tradition in tribal areas of the conservative Islamic  kingdom, last 
month.

Eastern Province governor Prince Mohammed  bin Fahd ordered  an
investigation into the incident, the official Saudi  Press  Agency
reported.




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