Manager 'broke down at airport'

An Indian manager, who had a mental breakdown at Bahrain International Airport and started acting like a child, has been admitted to the Psychiatric Hospital, sources told the GDN yesterday.
He was on transit from Dammam, Saudi Arabia, to Bangalore, India, on Wednesday at the official alerted the authorities concerned. around 11pm when he started acting strangely, they said.
"He wouldn't speak to the official at the immigration counter. He wouldn't give his name or other details or budge from the queue," said the sources.
"Realising something was wrong, the official alerted the authorities concerned.
"However, he refused to climb the escalator to board the flight and he started making weird gestures like a child such as sucking his thumb.
"The flight had to leave without him and he was kept in custody by airport authorities."
The 24-year-old had worked as a manager for a manpower supply company in Ras Tanura, near Dammam, for more than a year.
Sources claimed that his sponsor had cancelled his visa and he was being sent back home without his contract being renewed.
"He was reportedly depressed because he was blamed for an accident involving a company car and was threatened to pay BD5,700 compensation," said the sources.
17/08/08 Begena P Pradeep/Gulf Daily News, Bahrain

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