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| Saudi security forces foil attack on Grand Mosque in Mecca | |
| 2017-06-24 | |
| [REUTERS] Saudi security forces foiled an attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Friday, state television Al-Ekhbariya and Al Arabiya TV reported. Al Arabiya said security forces had found two groups of terrorists in Mecca and a third group in the city of Jeddah. The foiled attack targetted worshipers at the mosque, it said. Neither Al Arabiya nor Al-Ekhbariya gave any further details.
A jacket wallah, who was hiding in a house in the Ajyad neighborhood, opened fire on security forces and refused to comply with calls to turn himself in. He later went kaboom!after being encircled, wounding six foreign residents and five members of the security forces, the security spokesperson said. Security forces tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! five suspects, including a woman, who are currently being interrogated. | |
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