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A mother who beat and tortured her six-month-old twin girls on camera for money has been arrested in Saudi Arabia.

Video footage of the two babies being slapped and strangled sparked outrage when it was published online.

The Saudi Ministry of Labour and Social Development has confirmed that the incidents were genuine and that they had arrested the mother, who is believed to have been the one carrying out the attacks.

At one point in the horrifying clip, the woman is seen throttling one of the babies while saying: 'Today I will kill you.'

Horrifying footage shows a mother throttling her six-month-old baby girl while saying 'today I will kill you'

At other points in the clip, she is seen slapping her children. The woman has been arrested after an appeal for information in Saudi Arabia after the video were viral

After the clips went viral Saudi Arabian officials issued an appeal for information which led to the person who posted the videos being tracked down.

He was identified as a Yemeni man called Mohanad Al Hashdi who revealed that the mother was a Somali woman living in Saudi Arabia who is married to another Yemeni man.

The couple had reportedly separated, leaving the woman in financial difficulties, and as a result she had taken the video and sent it to her husband's father in Yemen to warn him of the consequences for failing to ensure that she was paid money.

The worried grandfather had shared it with Al Hashdi who then put it online on YouTube in the hope that it would result in the babies being rescued.

Khalid Aba Khail then posted a social media message saying that the twins had been found in Jeddah and taken to hospital.

It is believed that the twins will now be returned to the family of the father.

The mother is believed to be a Somali woman living in Saudi Arabia who sent the clips to her husband's father in Yemen to warn him of the consequences for failing to ensure that she was paid money