Cairo: Saudi police have arrested three expatriates for posing as security men and robbing a house in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, a police official said.
The suspects are two Chadians and a Pakistani national, added a spokesman for police in the Mecca region of which Jeddah is part.
The trio were accused of impersonating police, entering an expatriate’s house and seizing an unspecified sum of money as well as personal belongings from it.
In an unrelated incident, Mecca police also arrested eight people, including three Saudi citizens and five illegal foreign residents on suspicion of burgling houses, and looting jewellery and cash money.
The suspects were accused of committing 20 burglaries and making off with valuables estimated at SR530,000, a spokesman for the Mecca police said.
The eight are kept in custody while referred to public prosecution.
