Police found that the two suspects were brothers — one of them aged 18 while the other 16. They are now in detention at Khalediya police station for questioning.

Expatriates working at a patrol station found the youth with stab wounds behind the station. Red Crescent officials took him to King Khaled Hospital, but he died before reaching the hospital.

l In Hail, a 13-year-old Saudi boy died of gunshot by mistake on Friday while he was on a hunting trip with his father in Ruqab deserts about 240 km south of Hail city.

Security sources told Arab News that the gunshot hit the child while he was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle along with his sister. The bullet hit the boy’s chest and he died immediately, one source said.

The boy was taken to the nearby Al-Haleefa Polyclinic where he was pronounced dead.

“Police have launched an investigation to determine the cause of the death,” the source said.

l In another development, officers of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) foiled an attempt by a group of young men to kidnap a woman from the vegetable market in Hail.

The Haia officials moved after they learned from sources that three young men were harassing women at Samah Commercial Center in the city.

“One young man tried to hold a woman and force her to enter their car. This led the women to cry for help,” a Haia source said. Haia officials then tried to catch the young men but they ran away. The commission has passed the car’s plate number to police to track them down.