ISIS threatens more attacks against Shiites in Saudi Arabia

Rasa - ISIS militants have threatened to carry out more attacks against Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia, media reported on Saturday.

News ID: 2623

Date: 30 May 2015 - 23:16

RNA - The self-proclaimed Islamic state (ISIS) militants have threatened to carry out more attacks against Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia, media reported on Saturday. ISIS has claimed responsibility for two mosque attacks that left around 30 people martyred in Saudi Arabia.

At least four people were martyred on May 29 after a car exploded outside a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia.

According to the official Saudi state news agency SPA, an Interior Ministry spokesman had said that the blast took place at a mosque park in the city of Dammam.

Witnesses told local press the man was wearing a woman's abaya (black cloak worn by women) and tried to enter the Mosque by the female entrance but it was shut. He was barred from entering by Mohammed Hassan Ali bin Isa and Saeed Abdel Jaleel Jumaa al-Arbash, the two young lads, who had been tasked with manning a civilian checkpoint.

Unable to enter the mosque, the terrorist detonated his bomb around five metres outside the entrance, killing himself and the two lads as well as one other person whose identity has yet to be discovered.

The incident cames one week after a suicide bomber detonated himself at another Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia on May 22 that claimed lives of over 20 people and left injured scores during the Friday prayers.

ISIS "has ordered its soldiers everywhere to kill the enemies of religion, especially the Shiites," a spokesman for the group is heard as saying in the audio message.

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