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30,000 Saudi beggars rounded up in Ramadan

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STREETS CLEARED: More than 30,000 beggars have been rounded up off Saudi streets by police during Ramadan.
STREETS CLEARED: More than 30,000 beggars have been rounded up off Saudi streets by police during Ramadan.

Police have rounded up 30,220 beggars in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, authorities have revealed.

The majority of them were found to be foreigners accounting for 26,211 beggars while 4,009 were Saudi nationals.

The largest percentage of beggars were foreign adult males making up 74 percent of the total, Saudi Gazette reported on Tuesday.

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Foreign male children starting out life as beggars in the Kingdom made up just under five percent compared with 2.89 percent of foreign female children.

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