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ISIL blamed for Saudi policemen deaths in Riyadh

This file photo shows Saudi police officers during a patrol in the capital, Riyadh.

Saudi authorities have held the ISIL Takfiri militant group responsible for the fatal shooting of two policemen in the capital, Riyadh, earlier this month. 

Spokesman for Saudi Interior Ministry Major General Mansour al-Turki said on Friday that they have arrested a 23-year-old Saudi man identified as Yazid bin Mohammed Abdulrahman Abu Niyan, who has made a confession of affiliation to ISIL terrorists in Syria. 

He added that ISIL supplied Abu Niyan and his Saudi accomplice, named as Nawaf bin Sharif Samir al-Anzi, with weapons, ammunition, and money to carry out the attack on security forces through a "third party whom they did not meet," and is believed to be of Moroccan nationality.

The official stated that Abu Niyan carried out the drive-by shooting while Anzi drove the car and filmed it. 

Saudi officials have also discovered seven cars in the terrorists' hideout in al-Huraimala district on the outskirts of Riyadh, three of them fitted with explosives, bomb-making materials and tools as well as machine guns, money and mobile telephones, which the attackers used to get in touch with "ISIL terrorist elements in Syria." 

On April 8, two Saudi policemen, identified as Thamer Amran al-Mutairi and Abdulmohsen Khalaf al-Mutairi, were killed in a drive-by shooting as they were patrolling in an eastern district of the capital. 

The ISIL Takfiri terrorists, who currently control parts of Syria and Iraq, have committed widespread acts of violence, including mass executions, abductions, torture and forcing women into slavery in the areas they have seized in the two countries. 

They have threatened all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Izadi Kurds and others, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq. 

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