An official source at the Ministry of Interior announced that the security authorities had arrested a gang of five Chadian criminals responsible for a number of attacks and armed burglaries in Jeddah last year. The gang will be refered to a religious court after they have confessed their crimes, which they committed in Jeddah during the second half of 1425H.
The source noted that the criminals had carried out their attacks to finance their malicious goals and added that their weapons and means of transportation have been seized.
He pointed out that three of them shot and killed a French resident in Jeddah on 11/8/1425H using a rented car and a false card. The incident was reported at that time.
They also robbed the British Airways Office in Jeddah on 10/7/1425H, after threatening to shoot seven employees, the source added.
The source indicated that the gang members started their criminal plans on 23/6/1425H when three of them seized money and prepaid phone cards from MEED Marketing Center in Jeddah after threatening to shoot the Center's workers by a machine gun. They also raided another MEED branch in Jeddah on 11/7/1425H and seized money and cards.
One of the gang shot at a resident near a bank in Jeddah on 14/7/1425H, but there were no injuries, the source concluded.
