Saudi municipal authorities foil attempted smuggling of rotten carcasses

An attempt to smuggle 1,243 rotten carcasses was foiled by the Jeddah Municipality thanks to five checkpoints set up at entrances to the area during Eid Al-Adha. Also seized were 109 vehicles being used to transport the rotten meat.

The municipality said surveillance teams in municipalities to the south, along with slaughterhouse management and the public benefit markets, were supported by security services in confiscating the carcasses, which were unfit for human consumption.

Some 1,225 carcasses were subsequently destroyed.

The municipality also closed 409 illegal barns and 527 slaughterhouses and moved 1,594 vehicles that were selling sheep at unauthorized sites.