Foiled Terrorist Attack on Qatif Mosque in Saudi Arabia
According to al-Riyadh Daily, a man wearing an explosive belt was going to blow up Al-Rasoul Al-A’dham Mosque in Um Al-Hamam village in Qatif on Tuesday evening.
The man was killed by security forces before he could carry out the suicide attack.
An accomplice in the attack was also arrested, the report said.
Investigation into the attempted suicide bombing has begun and the area has been cordoned off by police and security forces.
Since late 2014, Saudi Arabia has been witnessing a series of bombings and shootings claimed by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and mostly targeting the country’s Shia Muslims in eastern part of the kingdom.
Last June, four Shia Muslims were killed why trying to prevent a bomber from entering al-Anoud mosque in Dammam city in eastern Saudi Arabia and close to Qatif.
Last October, an armed terrorists opened fire on Shia Muslims commemorating Ashura, them martyrdom anniversary of the third Shia Imam, Imam Hussein (PBUH), in the eastern Qatif region, killing five before he was shot dead by the police.
In January 2016, a bomber targeted a mosque in al-Ahsa, killing four people.
And in July this year, two bomb blasts hit near a Shia mosque in Qatif while a third bomb went off close to a security headquarters at Prophet's Mosque in the western city of Medina.
