Faizel Patel, 2016-05-05
Four ISIS fighters have been killed and two others captured following a raid by Saudi security forces in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Arab News is reporting two of the terrorists were shot down by police while two others blew themselves up with suicide belt bombs after they were surrounded.
A ministry spokesperson says the suspects were apparently taken by surprise when police surrounded their hideout located in Makkah between the holy city and Taif city.
According to Saudi sources, the cell was preparing to attack a security base around a house in the Wadi Noman area where the ISIS fighters had gathered.
In an earlier, two-day security operation that ended on Sunday, two ISIS suspects were killed and a third was wounded in southwestern Bisha province.
The operation came shortly after the Saudi security forces arrested Ukab Atibi, a member of the ISIS cell that had carried out a suicide attack on a mosque used by members of a local security force in southwest Saudi Arabia in August 2015.
Makkah is Islam’s holiest city and a key site of the annual hajj pilgrimage.
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