RIYADH: A Filipina has been arrested in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of helping a Syrian to make explosive belts for suicide attacks in the kingdom, the interior ministry said on Saturday.

The Syrian suspect, identified as Mohamed al-Barazi, is suspected of turning the house they shared in a residential neighbourhood of the Saudi capital into a bomb factory, the ministry spokesman said.

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