Saudi Arabia’s safety forces uncovered an Daesh-linked terrorist community that was concerned in previous assaults within the kingdom and was planning future assaults towards civilians, safety personnel and authorities websites, the Saudi Interior Ministry mentioned on Monday.
The terror community was comprised of three cells.
Seventeen suspects, amongst them one Saudi lady, have been arrested within the months-long operation.
Eleven are Saudi residents, along with three Yemenis, two Egyptians and one Palestinian, Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour Al Turki mentioned in a press convention.
Al Turki mentioned the community was concerned in making ready suicide vests and improvised explosives, and offering logistics, cowl, funding, arms and transportation for terrorist operations inside the dominion.
The community additionally communicated “with leaders abroad in all their activities,” he mentioned.
The official mentioned the terrorist community was additionally concerned in harbouring two attackers concerned in a bombing and taking pictures within the japanese al-Ahsa governorate towards the Imam Reda Mosque.
That assault in January killed two safety officers and a civilian, in addition to a suicide bomber.
He mentioned the group was additionally concerned in a automobile bombing towards a safety officer within the capital, Riyadh, in February, a bombing towards a safety checkpoint in Riyadh in July 2015, and a failed try to bomb an oil pipeline within the governorate of al-Dawadmi.
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