The death toll from the unusually heavy rains that hit western Saudi Arabia has reached 106, an official said today.

Heavy rain and 38 mile-per-hour winds are blamed for more than 30 deaths in western Saudi Arabia, knocking down power poles, billboards and at least one house.

US citizens living in a residential compound in western Saudi Arabia have been put on high alert after the American Embassy issued an increased threat level warning, officials said today.

Saudi security forces today killed two key militants who had links to the weekend shooting attack and hostage-taking crisis that killed 22 people, most of them foreign oil workers.

A head-on collision between a bus and a truck has killed 26 people and injured 24 in western Saudi Arabia.