Arrest of Wanted by Security Authorities, Haitham Ibrahim Hassan al-Mukhtar

The Security spokesman of Ministry of Interior stated that further to the statement announced on 21/3/1437 AH on the arrest of a wanted person by security authorities who were involved in the crime of shooting at a security patrol in Seihat on 06/02/1437 AH, which resulted in the martyrdom of two security men, as well as the shooting at traffic patrols in Al-Khuwaldiyah district in Qatif Governorate dated on 27/01/1437 AH, which resulted in the injury of a traffic patrol assistant commander and two passers-by, and in the context of security follow-up of these sinful terrorist attacks, the wanted man by the security authorities called Haitham Ibrahim Hassan Al-Mukhtar was arrested on 08/04/1437 AH after the provision of evidence of his involvement in participating in those crimes, and his cooperation with a group of people to form a terrorist cell in Qatif linked to one of the wanted on the list of (23) announced on 8/2/1433 AH, in addition to his participation in the manufacturing of Molotov bombs and hiding them in an abandoned house, as well as his participation in the crime of throwing Molotov bombs at a government building on 29/3/1437 AH in an attempt to set it on fire.

The Ministry of the Interior confirms that the security forces continue their missions in following-up and pursuing anyone seeking for public disorder and destabilizing security to arrest them for fair punishment.

Source: SPA