JEDDAH: Seven terror suspects were arrested in a series of raids in Jeddah early Saturday morning, authorities said.
Security forces stormed three separate locations simultaneously in an operation that lasted around two hours.
The raids took place in the Al-Harazat, Al-Mahameed and Bani Malik districts.
Four people were arrested in Al-Harazat and Al-Mahameed after security forces cordoned off the locations and fired warning shots.
The suspects surrendered immediately without any resistance. Three other people were arrested without resistance in Bani Malik in downtown Jeddah.
The Ministry of Interior is expected to announce further details soon.
The raids follow another anti-terror operation in Jeddah in mid-January, in which two suspected terrorists were killed and another two arrested in dramatic security operations.
In that incident, two suspected terrorists in the Al-Harazat district were killed after they blew themselves up after refusing to surrender to police calls.
Authorities arrested another two, a husband and his wife, in the Naseem District.
Earlier in January, two suspected militants were killed after a shootout with Saudi security forces in a district north of the capital Riyadh.
And in a further successful anti-terror operation, it emerged in October that security forces had foiled a plot to bomb the Al-Jawhara Stadium in Jeddah during a World Cup qualifying match.
Two alleged terrorist cells linked to Daesh were dismantled during that security operation, authorities said at the time.
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