Saudi Arabia's King Fahd Bin Abdul- aziz is doing well after being admitted to hospital for medical examinations, a senior official said early Saturday.

"King Fahd is well, thank God, and the medical tests he is undergoing are proceeding in a normal way," the official was quoted by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) as saying in a statement.

He said there was no government state of alert and criticized media outlets for erroneous reporting that could cause disturbance in internal affairs of the kingdom, the world's largest oil exporter.

"Information broadcast by certain press agencies and picked up by certain hostile and malicious television stations who say that a state of alert has been declared and that leave of elements of the security forces has been canceled is wrong," said the statement.

Earlier, reports said the Saudi government had put the country on a state of alert and canceled all military leaves as a precaution.

Mansour al-Turki, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, also denied that any emergency had been declared, saying the situation around the country was normal.

"This is absolutely not true," al-Turki said. "There's no canceling of leaves and no state of emergency or anything."

On Friday evening, the SPA quoted a palace statement as saying that Fahd was admitted at King Faisal hospital in Riyadh.

"We ask God to keep and care for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and grant him health and well-being," the statement said, without giving details on the king's condition.

Fahd, 84, rose to the throne in 1982. His health first deteriorated when he suffered a stroke in November 1995. Since then the day-to-day running of the country has been in the hands of Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul-aziz.

Source: Xinhua