Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s Criminal Court handed out a death penalty to three members of a terrorist cell for their involvement in several terror attacks across the Kingdom, local media reported on Sunday.
The Riyadh Criminal Court issued the preliminary ruling against the members of the terrorist group, known as “Al Harazat Jeddah”. Evidence used in court stated that the three terrorists were planning to assassinate security men and to attack security checkpoints in Jeddah.
The court also sentenced six other members to different jail terms for financing terrorism and for possession of explosives.
The ruling states that the group members had supported the terrorist organisation Daesh and were planning to assassinate members of the Kingdom’s security forces and attack security centres in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
Court linked the terrorists to the group that targeted worshippers in the Prophet's Mosque on July 5, 2016 in Madina, by providing the suicide bomber with an explosive belt.
They handed over the explosive belt to the suicide bomber who blew himself up when he was intercepted by security officers and prevented him from entering the Prophet's Mosque, resulting in his death and the killing of of four security officers and injuring five others.
They were also linked to the terrorist attack that took place in the parking of the Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah on July 4, 2016. By which they provided an explosive belt to the suicide bomber who blew himself up.
It is also found that the convicted terrorists killed one of the cell members because they suspected that he intends to turn himself to security and to confesson other cell members and operations
According to investigations, they killed him by shooting a bullet into his head with a silencer then threw his body into a hole in a rented house.
Earlier, the Ministry of Interior confirmed that the terrorist cell members were linked to terrorist activities, and that they had rented a rest house and a house in a neighbourhood in Jeddah, as a shelter for the cell members and as a factory for making explosive belts and explosives before moving to other locations in Al Harazat neighbuorhood.
