Riyadh -- Saudi Arabia said Friday it had foiled a bomb plot by the Daesh group and blamed the terrorists for shooting dead two policemen in the capital earlier this month.A Saudi man arrested at a farm north of Riyadh on suspicion of carrying out the shooting has confessed that he was following orders received from Daesh in Syria, the interior ministry said. He was identified as 23-year-old Yazid bin Mohammed Abdulrahman Abu Niyan.
The authorities offered a one-million-riyal ($267,000, Dh979,466) bounty for a second suspect, another Saudi identified as Nawaf bin Sharif Samir Al Anzi, wanted During their investigation the authorities seized seven cars, “three of them booby-trapped”, as well as suspected bomb-making materials and tools, said the statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. They also discovered machineguns, ammunition, money and several mobile telephones which revealed an exchange between the attackers and “terrorist elements in Syria”, SPA said.
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According to Abu Niyan, Daesh supplied them with the weapons, ammunition and money to carry out the shooting through a “third party whom they did not meet”, the statement said.
The shooting was the fifth attack on security forces and foreigners in Saudi Arabia orchestrated by Daesh, according to interior ministry spokesman General Mansour Al Turki.