A 20-km chase involving checkpoint police and a driver attempting to head for the hills of Al-Mujarada led to the discovery of a Somali couple hidden in the trunk of his vehicle. The car was stopped by checkpoint officials but when they asked to (...)
Three illegal immigrants were detained on Tuesday as they attempted to reach Jeddah by car disguised as women. The driver of the vehicle told police when stopped that his three passengers were all female relatives but officers had their suspicions (...)
Police at a checkpoint in Al-Mujarada have arrested an Indian man accused of helping a Sri Lankan housemaid flee from her sponsors. Officers said they observed “suspicious behavior” on the part of the driver and when they searched the vehicle found (...)
Authorities in Asir are trying to locate a group of Arabs which beat up a man on the roof of a residential building before throwing him to the ground below. The man, who was found by passers-by, is currently in intensive care in a hospital in (...)
A fire broke out at a bachelor residence of Al-Mujarada Hospital Tuesday, spreading to the ground floor which served as a store for kidney dialysis machines and medicines. No injuries were reported in the incident. Fire fighters used a suction (...)
The father of Hassan Salim Saeed Al-Shehri, who was shot to death two years ago by Adil Salim Saleh Al-Shehri during a dispute, pardoned his son's killer Monday as he was being taken for execution. Al-Shehri announceed his pardon without asking for (...)
Police were alerted after bystanders observed a woman hanging on to the back of a bus heading to Jeddah in an apparent attempt by her to flee her sponsor. According to police the woman, a housemaid, had previously attempted to purchase a ticket but (...)
Police foiled an attempt on Wednesday by a Saudi man to smuggle three Indonesian women into the Kingdom. When stopped at a checkpoint the man claimed that the women were his wife and daughters, but upon investigations prompted by the supposed wife's (...)