According to reports Reuters, at the time of the attack on the Imam Ali mosque, there were over 150 faithful. – We heard the explosion, when we celebrated the first part of the prayer – told Reuters by telephone one of the witnesses.
The Temple of Imam Ali is located in Al-Kadih (Al-Qadeeh), in gubernatorni Al-Katif (Al-Qatif) in the Eastern Province (Sharqia).
social media contains images of bloodied victims who were taken away on a stretcher from the place of explosion.
The attack pleaded with the State Islamic jihadists. In the statement published on the websites of Islamists announced that they are responsible for the attack, “the soldiers of the Caliphate in the region of Najd (Najd) in the central part of Saudi Arabia”. It was added that the attack carried out suicide bombers with explosives girded which detonated when he entered the mosque.
The IS has also published a photo of the bomber, who – as reads – called Abu Amer Al-Najdi.
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In the Eastern Province, many inhabited by minority Shi’ite rarely comes to such incidents; Occasionally there also are Shiite protests demanding greater rights.
Friday’s attack came at a time when a coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia’s leading air attacks on Shiite rebel movement in neighboring Yemen Huť.
Saudi Arabia, inhabited mainly by Sunnis, Sunni radicals threaten the IS, who in June of last year into parts of Syria and Iraq formed a caliphate. Air campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq, leads an international coalition led by the United States and with the participation of forces from Saudi Arabia.
In November last year, State Islamic extremists were accused of attacking Shiites, also in the east of the country; in an attack killed seven people.
Most likely, more than 2,000 Saudis, according to the BBC website, joined the IS, and hundreds returned to the country. In recent months, Saudi authorities have arrested hundreds of people suspected of links with IS.
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