Saudi Police kill Prophet's Mosque attack mastermind in Riyadh!

• According to Saudi Gazette, one of the suspects Tayea Salem Yaslam Al Sayari was wanted for plotting the attack on the Prophet's Mosque last year.

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Authorities in Saudi Arabia say police have shot and killed two suspected Daesh militants in the capital, Riyadh.

The Interior Ministry says the two suspected militants opened fire Saturday on police after being surrounded in the capital's northern Yasmeen neighborhood, forcing officers to return fire and kill them. It said one officer was slightly wounded.

The Interior Ministry published photos of explosive suicide vests, rifles and ammunition it said officers found. It also said material found inside the home the two men hid in suggests it was used to manufacture bombs.

According to Saudi Gazette, one of the suspects Tayea Salem Yaslam Al Sayari was wanted for plotting the attack on the Prophet's Mosque last year. The reports states, "Al Sayari was said to have designed the explosive belts and other devices that were used in the botched attacks on the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah and the parking lots of Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah earlier on July 4, 2016, as well as the attack on a mosque used by Saudi special forces in the southern Saudi city of Abha on August 9, 2015."

Saudi Arabia has faced a series of attacks from a local Daesh affiliate.

The militant threat in the kingdom is the most serious it has faced since an Al Qaida insurgency over a decade ago.


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