Riyadh: Police arrested a 27-year-old Saudi national for killing his mother in the province of Mecca.
The man reportedly attacked his mother and stabbed her in various parts of her body, causing her death instantly.
Mecca Police media spokesman Colonel A’ati Al-Qurashi said that the 27-year-old is ‘mentally disturbed’.
The mother was about to start praying early morning when her son attacked her from behind and tried to slit her throat.
He then chased her in the house and stabbed her nine times on her face and in the chest.
After committing the crime, he went to his brother-in-law’s house in his blood-stained clothes and asked him to take him to the police, claiming that he had a violent brawl with his siblings.
The man has a history of domestic violence as he was earlier convicted of beating his estranged wife, reported local Arabic daily Al-Riyadh.