Saudi Arabia said police foiled on Friday a “terrorist action” against Islam’s holiest site, where millions of faithful from around the world have gathered.
Citing the Ministry of the Interior, the state Al-Ekhbaria news channel said 11 people were injured in the collapse of a three-storey building where a suicide bomber had barricade himself and exploded. Five of the injured were police.
Al-Arabiya said security forces had found two groups of terrorists in Mecca and a third group in the city of Jeddah. Al-Arabiya said a man wanted by Saudi authorities was shot dead and several others were arrested in Mecca.
Video showed what appeared to be a bearded man’s head lying among rubble from a collapsed structure in Mecca.
The incident happened with hundreds of thousands of worshippers gathered at the Grand Mosque for early afternoon prayers on the last Friday of this year’s Ramadan.
Source: Agecnies
