The victim, who was reportedly in his 30s, was waiting for a taxi on the highway close to Al-Sauta when a car with two young Saudi men pulled over and offered him a ride.

After the man accepted the ride he was driven to a remote location 60 km away from Taif.  The man claims the Saudis stripped him, sodomized him, took SR1,500 and a mobile phone, and left him there naked. T

he man walked nude to a work camp in the village of Sudairah where he was given clothing and means to inform the police of the crime. Police are also investigating another roadside robbery of another expatriate close to where the abduction took place.