The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Khamis Mushayt's Al-Sinaia District seized over 100 bottles of liquor (Araq) and arrested three Arab expatriates. The seizure and the arrests came during a surprise raid on suspicious locations on Abha-Khamis Mushayt Road. One of the bootleggers admitted that he mixed liquor with a red substance to give it a distinctive reddish tinge.