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Saudi attacks: 12 Pakistanis, 7 Saudis arrested

| | Jul 08, 2016, at 03:26 pm
Riyadh, July 8 (IBNS): Saudi officials gave arrested 19 people in connection with the Medina and Qatif suicide blasts this week.

Twelve people among them are said to be Pakistani nationals

State news agency SPA quoted an interior ministry spokesman as saying in the attacks 12 Pakistanis and seven Saudis were  involved.

He was quoted as saying by  the agency that the investigations revealed that the terrorist who carried out the attack in a parking lot in the vicinity of the Prophet s mosque was Naer Musllam Hammad Al-Nijaidi Al-Balawe, a Saudi of 26-years-old with drug abuse history.

Abdulrahman Saleh Mohammed Al-Amer,Ibrhaim Saleh Mohammed Al-Amer,Abdulkareem Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Hasini carried out the Qatif terror attack, the spokesman was quoted as saying by the agency.
 

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