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Officer killed in police raid in Saudi Arabia

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

A police officer has been killed in a police raid targeting suspected ISIL members in the western and most populous province of Mecca.

The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement that the security forces “arrested three suspects, confiscated Daesh (ISIL) flags, silencers and personal laptops” during the raid in the city of Taif, located 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of the holy city of Mecca, on Friday.

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

On April 24, Saudi officials announced the arrest of a 23-year-old Saudi man identified as Yazid bin Mohammed Abdulrahman Abu Niyan, who had made a confession of affiliation to ISIL in Syria. 

Spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry Major General Mansour al-Turki said at the time that ISIL supplied Abu Niyan and his Saudi accomplice Nawaf bin Sharif Samir al-Anzi with weapons, ammunition and money to carry out the attack on the security forces through a “third party whom they did not meet,” and is believed to be of Moroccan nationality.

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

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