Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior on Monday said a man was executed in Riyadh for planning to target public civilian gatherings through a suicide mission under the direction of ISIS.
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The ministry said the man had an explosive belt and photographs of the target side.
The man had also swore allegiance to ISIS and adopted their ideas, the Kingdom’s interior ministry added.
In October, Saudi Arabia executed a citizen in the Eastern Province for his links to a terrorist cell and killing security men, murdering a citizen, possessing and making a Molotov cocktail bomb, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The terrorist cell aimed to destabilize the country’s internal security, according to SPA.
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