JIZAN: Two Saudi kidnappers have surrendered to the authorities after four years on the run, while a third man, their accomplice, was arrested earlier. The two recently gave themselves up to Col. Bashir Al-Ossaimi, Director of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Jizan Region. Capt. Abdul Rahman Al-Qahtani, Acting Spokesman of Jizan Region Police, said the case goes back to 2007 when three Saudi men kidnapped two Saudi youths from Al-Husseini village, east of Sabya Governorate in Jizan Region, with the aim of getting a ransom. They took the abducted youths to Yemen. Ten days later one of the kidnappers was arrested. The two abducted youths were handed over to the authorities in Jizan Region while the two kidnappers fled the Kingdom. Al-Qahtani added that investigations revealed that the wanted kidnappers were in Yemen and had turned themselves in recently to Ossaimi. The two were taken into custody pending completion of investigations. Saudi Gazette had published the details of the incident at the time. The two kidnapped youths, Abdul Wahab Hashim Ridaini, 23, and Hussein Ali Al-Sab'i, 21, described their ordeal to the newspaper. Al-Sab'i said on the day of the incident he received a telephone call from his maternal uncle informing him that his car had broken down in Al-Dayir Governorate, asking for his help. “I took my friend Abdul Wahab Ridaini but when we arrived at the meeting place, a man came and said he was sent by our maternal uncle and invited us into the house. On entering the apartment, we were shocked to see several men pointing guns at our heads. We [were told] we were going to be kidnapped and wouldn't be released unless a ransom of SR380,000 was paid.” “We spent a night of horror in the apartment. We are still shocked at being kidnapped. The kidnappers then took us to one of the tribes in Yemen on Mount Katfah where we were handed over to the sheikhs of Aal Zaidan tribe and from there to the authorities. The case dossier has remained open since then, they said.
