According to the Arabic News Report okaz.com.sa Police announced that the number of Ethiopian men, women and children, who responded with a call to the security men to surrender voluntarily after the events Manfouha reached More than 17 thousand people.

Thousands of mostly African workers gathered in central Riyadh on Sunday awaiting repatriation after violent clashes the previous night with Saudi police.

The migrant workers boarded buses which took them to temporary housing near the airport. The unrest follows a visa crackdown by the Saudi authorities.

Some of the workers said they had been attacked by vigilante groups.

One Ethiopian worker said: “That’s it, they are saying ‘Ethiopians are a problem and have to go’. I’ve had enough. There is no residence permit. I’ve been in Saudi Arabia for three and a half years and now I am going back to my own country.”

At least two people were killed in Saturday’s unrest. The violence follows a police round-up of migrant workers last week when an amnesty linked to new employment rules expired.

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There are around nine million foreign workers in Saudi Arabia but the authorities want to cut that number in a bid to reduce unemployment among its own nationals.

Riyadh police announced that the number of Ethiopian men, women and children, who responded with a call to the security men to surrender voluntarily after the events Manfouha reached 17 thousand people.

The media spokesman Police Riyadh region, Brigadier Nasser bin Saeed Al-Qahtani that people who attended voluntarily Center for shelter from violators system to stay and work in Riyadh on Sunday, the day before yesterday at nine in the morning of the men, women and children up to the preparation of this statement yesterday afternoon, had reached 17 thousand people, explaining that he had been the headquarters for processing residence and work is underway to end their procedures and to facilitate their travel.

The number of deaths rose to riot incident employment to become Ethiopian Ethiopian citizen and death, and the number of those arrested were involved in the riots to 1199 people, including 119 women and 11 children.

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