Saudi Arabia’s government offered a $1.3m cash reward for men connected to bombings at mosques in the past two weeks, saying that “[a]nyone dealing with the wanted men will be held accountable,” according to Reuters and information posted by the Ministry of Interior and the Saudi Press Agency.
The damage after a suicide bombing at a Mosque last week.
The self-described Islamic State, or Daesh, claimed responsibility for the attacks on Shia mosques, which appeared to be an effort to stoke sectarian conflict within the Kingdom between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
The interior ministry identified the bomber in last week’s attack as a Saudi citizen, 20-year old Khalid al-Wahbi al-Shemmari, according to Reuters.
A Saudi student enrolled at Wichita State in Kansas was pivotal in thwarting the bomber from entering the mosque and potentially harming more worshippers, but died in the attack. Abduljaleel Alarbash, a 22-year-old electrical engineering major and honor roll student, “had traveled back to Saudi Arabia to get married,” CNN reported.
