Illegal migrants surrender after riots

Rappler.com

Hundreds of illegal migrants targeted in a Saudi nationwide crackdown turned themselves in on November 10, after security forces besieged a Riyadh neighborhood where riots had killed 2 people. Men, women and children lined up carrying their belongings to board police buses transferring them to an assembly center before their deportation, a week after a 7-month amnesty expired. Police said they intervened on November 9  following riots in the poor Manfuhah neighborhood of the capital after foreigners attacked Saudis and other foreign expats with rocks and knives.

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