RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday said it had arrested 13 individuals in connection with planning attacks in the kingdom, a day after security forces said they had thwarted an attack north of the capital, state news agency SPA reported.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attempted attack on a state security building in Zulfi, about 250km northwest of the capital.
Security forces have said they killed four alleged IS militants who had planned Sunday’s attack. They later raided a nearby rest house they said the militants had rented for use as a bomb factory, and seized suicide vests, homemade bombs, Kalashnikov rifles and IS publications.