Saudi Arabia: Eastern Province attack


Issue 1008 - 21 Jan 2016 | 1 minute read

Further violence has been reported as tension persists in parts of Eastern Province following the execution of dissident cleric Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr. Masked men threw firebombs at an intelligence service compound in Qatif, Reuters reported activists saying on 11 January. A Ministry of Interior spokesman said, “there was a failed terrorist attempt to burn the building with Molotov cocktails”, and one of the assailants was captured.

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