Saudi Arabia arrests 46 suspects involved in Medina attack

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Saudi Arabia arrests 46 suspects involved in Medina attack
Staff writer, Al Arabiya.net Sunday, 30 April 2017

Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had arrested 46 members of a militant cell responsible for a deadly suicide bombing attack on the Prophet's Mosque in the holy city of Medina last summer widely blamed on ISIS, according to the spokesman of the Saudi Interior Ministry.

The suspects, who included foreign and Saudi citizens, were detained in the Western port city of Jeddah.

The spokesman said that investigations with members of the recently dismantled ‘Al-Harazat cell’ proved that they have connections to other terrorist operations.

He said that one of these terrorist acts was the attack that targeted the worshipers at the Prophet's Mosque, by providing the explosive belt which was used in this crime and handing it over to the suicide bomber.

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