Attack on Grand Mosque in Mecca is foiled as suspect blows himself

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Attack on Grand Mosque in Mecca is foiled as suspect blows himself

June 24th, 2017

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Attack on Grand Mosque in Mecca is foiled as suspect blows himself

Daily Mail
June 24, 2017

Saudi security forces have foiled a terror plot targeting the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca after a suspect blew himself up after a gunfight.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said security forces exchanged gunfire with one of the suspects, who blew himself up inside a home he was hiding in yesterday.

Five people, including a woman, were arrested in security operations in Mecca, Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki said.

The Interior Ministry added that the attack on the mosque was being planned by three terrorist groups, two based in Mecca and a third in Jeddah.

Al-Arabiya said a suicide bomber hiding in a house in the Ajyad al-Masafi neighborhood of Mecca opened fire on security forces and later blew himself up on the eve of Ramadan.

Five security forces members and six other people – the latter all foreigners – were injured in the attack.