Two smugglers were caught in the southern region of Bani Malik on Monday in possession of 1,338 gun cartridges. An official spokesman for the Mujahideen Department in Jizan said that the smugglers had tried to escape authorities by opening fire. No casualties were reported. The same day, Mujahideen officers near the town of Nayd Shaqra arrested two drugs smugglers. Nine kilograms of hashish were seized by officials who had spotted the pair attempting to conceal the drugs between rocks on a mountain.