- JEDDAH: Police here arrested one Somali and eight Ethiopians, all men between the ages of 20 and 30, who are accused of being members of a gang that would monitor banks and rob people coming out of them.
- The arrest stems from one incident in which a Yemeni exited a bank in Jeddah's Al-Aziziyah district in the north of the city with SR55,000.
The men followed him and broke into his vehicle as he stopped for lunch.
It is unclear how the police came to arrest the nine men. Police did say they knew the men had been monitoring banks for some time.