The Board of Grievances in Makkah is investigating the assault of a Saudi doctor who issued a death report that angered the deceased man's son. Saleh Al-Matrafi said his father died when he was run over while crossing Al-Arbaeen Street in the Makkah district of Jabl Al-Noor, and not as a result of a heart attack as stated in the report by Dr. Thamir Rammani, the duty director at King Faisal Hospital. “The street has no pedestrian bridges, and the driver was speeding even with pupils coming out of a secondary school on the same street,” Al-Matrafi said. “Despite all that, my father was held 50 percent responsible for his own death by Makkah Traffic Police.” Al-Matrafi reportedly assaulted the doctor after being angered by the medical report's failure to include details of the traffic accident that he says killed his father. The report, Al-Matrafi says, instead absolves the driver involved in the accident of any responsibility for his father's death. The Board of Grievances has now taken up the case following interviews conducted by the Board of Control and Investigation on Tuesday.
