The Environmental Security Special Forces arrested (4) residents of Sudanese nationality in violation of the environmental law, for storing local firewood and turning it into charcoal in the Makkah Al-Mukarramah region, in possession of more than (163) cubic meters of local firewood, and more than (24) cubic meters of local coal.
The forces indicated that the procedures were applied against them and the seized quantities were handed over to the competent authorities of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, stressing that the penalty for storing local firewood and coal amounts to (16) thousand riyals per cubic meter. It urged the forces to report any cases of assault on the environment or wildlife by calling (911) in the regions of Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Riyadh and the Eastern Province, and (999) and (996) in the rest of the Kingdom’s regions.