Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday it had arrested 88 individuals with suspected terror links.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday it had arrested 88 individuals with suspected terror links.

“Security apparatuses, over a period of several months, monitored all the suspects, particularly those with extremist ideologies,” an Interior Ministry statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency said.

It said 59 of those who were arrested had previously been detained.

“Months of monitoring and security observation provided evidence to detain the suspects and thwart the plans that they were on the verge of carrying out both inside and abroad,” the statement said.

The statement said the 88 were apprehended recently in a series of raids in several areas of the country.