Attack Thwarted on Saudi Security Facility, Four Gunmen Dead
- Four men tried to storm security facility north of Riyadh
- All attackers killed, three Saudi security forces injured
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Saudi Arabian police foiled an attack by unidentified gunmen on a security facility north of the capital, Riyadh, on Sunday, killing all four, a government spokesman said.
The men tried to storm a building belonging to Saudi Arabia’s mabahith security agency in the town of Al Zulfi, located in a conservative area about 155 miles (250 kilometers) from the capital, a spokesman for the Presidency of State Security said in a statement. Three police officers were lightly hurt in what the statement called a “terrorist attack.” The mabahith deal with domestic security and are sometimes referred to as the kingdom’s secret police.