MAKKAH: Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recently found a woman in her 20s who escaped from a group of kidnappers who took her to a rural location along the Jeddah-Makkah Expressway.
“The woman managed to escape from the men and was found alone by one of our patrol cars in the Al-Rusaifah district of Makkah,” said a commission spokesman. “The woman waved when she saw the lights of the car. She was terrified and shaken up,” he added.
The unnamed woman told commission members that she was kidnapped by a man who drove her to a place where his friends were camping. “She said the men tied her up and forced her to take some type of pills. She said the men drank alcohol and that some of them tried to rape her. She, however, escaped as they were very drunk,” the spokesman said.
The commission turned the woman over to the custody of police, who are looking for the kidnappers. The woman was able to provide a detailed description of the man who kidnapped her.
Sheikh Abdul Rahman ibn Hamad Al-Diaig, chairman of commission in Makkah, warned women against riding alone with non-related men and called on parents not to allow their daughters to venture out alone at night.
