hailed as heroes for stopping an ISIS suicide bomber
reaching worshipers at a mosque in Saudi Arabia
yesterday.
Independent UK reports;
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 maining a civilian checkpoints
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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