Hospitals in Riyadh received 15 members of the security forces who sustained injuries in the two explosions that targeted the premises of the Ministry of Interior and the Special Forces base in Riyadh. Dr. Muhammad Mufti, director general of the Security Forces Hospital in Riyadh, said they received 11 injured soldiers, five of them from the patrol police and the rest from the Special Forces. All the injured were in stable condition with most of the injuries confined to bruises and cuts resulting from the shattered glass and debris.
At Al-Mashari Hospital, four members of the security forces were admitted after sustaining varying degrees of injuries. One soldier had his feet amputated while the other three were said to suffer minor injuries. Seven terrorists were killed in the gun battle following the two explosions. Shortly after the explosions, security forces raided a villa in a neighborhood north of the capital. Another three were killed in an earlier firefight that began late Tuesday and continued into Wednesday. |