Riyadh installs cameras to protect borders with Yemen

Saudi Arabia announced it has started to install Cameras to monitor its borders with Yemen to monitor weapons smuggling operations to the Kingdom and prevent the fleeing of wanted Saudis to Yemen.

The director of borders guards in Najran district, lt. Gen. Abdullah Abu Naab, said that the "border guards in the southern areas of the Kingdom started to deploy thermal cameras .. along the border line with Yemen."

In a statement, he said that the leadership of the borders areas in Najran completed the distribution in Khabash center, which overlooks the joint borders with Yemen, in a way that any movement can be monitored.

Abu Naab added that the leadership if the border guards in Jeizan area deployed additional number of its forces along the land and sea border, and equipped it with modern instruments, noting that these measures contributed to decreasing the number of illegal border crossings, to the Saudi lands and foiling most smuggling operations.

A security source said that Jeizan district achieved tangible successes in foiling smuggling operations, the most prominent of which was confiscation of 3,000 bullets in al-Dayer area.

The Saudi ministry of the interior is chasing several wanted extremists accused of taking part in carrying out terrorist acts in Riyadh.