Major General Mansour bin Sultan Al-Turki, the Security Spokesman at the Ministry of Interior, said that, according to the information made available to the security authorities about the plan of the deviated group to carry out terrorist crimes targeting the breach of peace and public order, security men at Al-Hamraa police checkpoint in Jazan Region, suspected early morning today the intentions of three persons in a salon car, two of them disguised as females. Waiting for a female inspector to come to the scene according to instructions in the case of female suspects, those in the car fired at the security men, killing one of them and slightly injuring another before the security men exchanged fire, killing two of them and arresting the third. Preliminary investigation revealed that two of the terrorists were wearing ready explosive belts and possessing a number of hand generates. In the car were also a quantity of hand generates and machine guns and other substance likely to be used to manufacture and prepare explosive materials, Al-Turki said. He added that security considerations oblige us not to give more details about the incidents in the present time. A supplementary statement would be issued later, he concluded.
