JEDDAH, 28 August 2003 — Police in Yanbu have started investigating a case of 13 men who attacked members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in front of their offices.
The men were attempting to rescue a group of individuals the commission had arrested, Al Madinah reported.
The commission had swooped on two men and two girls who were not related to one another on the beach there, the paper said.
On returning with their charges to their headquarters, they were attacked by the 13 and one of the girls escaped. Police later arrested four of the attackers and are still searching for the others.
The commission released the two men and the girl still in their charge into the custody of their families.
