An official source of the interior ministry said that at 03:45 p.m. on Sunday, corresponding to 24/10/1439 H. (July 08, 2018), a security control point stationed at the outskirts of Buraidah highway, Qassim Region, was subject to a firing from three terrorists who were riding a Hyundai Elantra vehicle Model 2018. The situation necessitated an exchange of fire with them, resulting in the killing of two terrorists and the injury of the third who was taken to a hospital while Staff Sergeant Suleiman Abdulaziz Al-Abdullatif and a Bangladeshi expatriate were martyred.
The source said that the security authorities are embarked on the criminal control procedures of the crime which are still going on. Results will be announced later, he added.