Two young men who reportedly stopped an Isis suicide bomber
entering a mosque in Saudi Arabia are being hailed as heroes after being killed
when he blew himself up.
The friends, named as Mohammed Hassan Ali bin Isa and
Abdul-Jalil al-Arbash, died after reportedly turning the attacker away from the
Imam Hussein mosque in Dammam yesterday. Eyewitnesses claim the man was
disguised as a woman and tried to enter through a closed female entrance before
going to the main gate, where the pair were manning a civilian checkpoint.
They saved a lot of lives by stopping the bomber from
getting inside the mosque,” a local man, who asked to remain anonymous, told
Middle East Eye. “They are both heroes.”
They chased the suicide bomber when he tried to enter the
women's section of the mosque in the south entrance,” he added.Abdul-Jalil was
reportedly 25 and had recently returned from studying at university in the US,
getting married just days ago.
One of the men’s mothers, Kowther al-Arbash, is a
high-profile writer for Saudi newspaper al-Jazira, Middle East Eye reported.
Photos of the pair were circulating on social media today,
with people calling them heroes and “martyrs”.
Videos also emerged claiming to show the fathers of both men
praising their sons' heroism.
A video from inside the al-Anoud mosque showed the moment
the explosion was heard outside, with prayers being interrupted by a huge blast
that shook the building, causing people to jump to their feet and shout in the
ensuing panic.
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