Eastern Province police arrested a Saudi who reportedly murdered a fellow Saudi citizen in Dammam on Sunday.

The victim, an employee at a security department in his thirties, was found dead in a pool of blood after being stabbed repeatedly, an official said.

“The man was stabbed early Sunday morning at a district in Dammam during a dispute between him and another man,” he said.

Col. Ziyad Al-Roqaiti, a spokesman for the Eastern Province Police, said that police in the region were placed on high alert, which led to the arrest of the suspect in less than 12 hours.

The suspect, in his twenties, was handed over to the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution following the arrest.

A police control room received word of the murder and news that the suspect had fled the scene at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. Police teams were instantly sent to the scene of the crime.

The body is being kept in a morgue and will be handed over to relatives upon completion of formalities.