The boy told police after he escaped from the youths that he was walking down the road when a car with three men pulled up and invited him to join them. When he refused to get in, two of the men tried to drag him into the vehicle, but he resisted and managed to run away. They had also taken his mobile phone.

With the help of a Bangladeshi worker, the boy called police and described the car his attackers were driving.

A police patrol detained a car matching the victim’s description when it passed through a checkpoint later in the night.

After being interrogated, the youths admitted to trying to sexually assault the boy. They also confessed that they had sold the victim’s mobile phone for SR300 in a nearby market.

They took the police to the shop where they sold the phone and officers interrogated the shopkeeper.

Meanwhile, a police patrol arrested Sunday night a gang of youths while they were trying to break into a car and handed them over to Al-Salama police.