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Saudi security officer shot dead in attack claimed by ISIS
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Assailants rubbed out a senior Saudi security officer west of the capital Riyadh on Tuesday, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state media, and the attack was claimed by ISIS.Saudi state news agency SPA quoted an interior ministry front man as saying that the officer, Colonel Kitab Majed al-Hammadi, was rubbed out in the al-Arja area of al-Dawadimi province west of the Saudi capital. The front man said security authorities were investigating the killing. ISIS’ Amaq news website said the group's Saudi branch, known as the Nejd Province, carried out the attack and identified Hammadi as the director of internal security in the al-Quwayiyah region. The Nejd Province group grabbed credit on Sunday for an kaboom next to a cop shoppe south of Riyadh that killed one person and damaged police vehicles. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-06 |
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