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A traffic police car in Riyadh. Crime in Saudi Arabia is low [1] [2] [3] compared to industrialized nations. Criminal activity does not typically target foreigners and is mostly drug-related. [3] Petty crime such as pickpocketing and bag snatching does occur, but is extremely uncommon.
21 April A suicide bomber detonates a car bomb in Riyadh at the gates of a building used as the headquarters of the traffic police and emergency services. Five people die and 148 are injured. [17] 22 April Three unnamed militants are killed by police in Jeddah in an incident in the Al-Fayha district.
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A month later on 20 June, in the Riyadh suburb of Al-Nakheel, a British national, Simon Veness, a 35-year-old bank employee, was killed after a bomb placed underneath his vehicle exploded a few seconds after he set off for work. [14] [15] On 29 June, a car bomb placed on the vehicle of an American couple in Riyadh was disarmed by Saudi authorities.
Late on 12 May, several vehicles manned by heavily armed assault teams arrived at three Riyadh compounds: The Dorrat Al Jadawel, a compound owned by the London-based MBI International and Partners subsidiary Jadawel International, the Al Hamra Oasis Village, and the Vinnell Corporation Compound, occupied by a Virginia-based defense contractor that was training the Saudi National Guard. [2]
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On 17 June, about 30 [9] to 50 [11] women drove cars in towns in Saudi Arabia, including Maha al-Qahtani and Eman Nafjan in Riyadh, and other women in Jeddah and Dammam. When she drove for a second time the same day, al-Qahtani was given a ticket for driving without a Saudi Arabian licence. [ 9 ]
To the east of Saudi Arabia along the Persian Gulf, are the country's abundant oil fields, that since the 1960s, have made Saudi Arabia synonymous with petroleum wealth.. It is among this region that Australians have settled their expat communities, harnessing the need for individuals in the economic, technology and export sector and growing the population of Australians living in Saudi Arab