Saudi sex cop's car chase blamed for death of 4

Arab News:

Two men and two women died yesterday when the car they were traveling overturned some 20 kilometers outside the holy city.

Eyewitness reports blamed the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice for the accident.

“Commission officials were chasing the car in which the four were traveling,” said one witness.

The commission’s director in Madinah Fahd Al-Khidr called the allegations baseless and said his organization had nothing to do with the accident.

Informed sources said three people died on the spot while one passenger breathed his last at a hospital. Civil Defense officers rushed to the accident site and took the dead and injured to hospital.

Col. Mohsen Al-Radadi, spokesman for the Madinah police, said authorities were looking into the cause of the accident.

Investigations are still under way regarding the involvement of two commission members in a high speed chase that led to the deaths of a young man and woman in the Tabuk area last month.

According to eyewitnesses, the young Saudi and his fellow passenger in a Toyota Camry died on March 16 when the car hit a truck on the Tabuk-Madinah highway, causing the car to go up in flames. The couple, who were suspected by the commission members of wrongdoing, were fleeing arrest.

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The Saudis need to disband the sex cops. They have been responsible for numerous deaths including young girls who were not allowed to flee a burning building. It is not clear why the King has not disbanded the thugs.