Iraqi militia bombing / ied and gunfire / clash attack on Place not stated · 5 January 2015
General / Security spokesman for the Ministry of Interior: Supplementary statement on the terrorist attack on one of the Border Guard patrols at Suwaif center in the Northern Region
عام / المتحدث الأمني بوزارة الداخلية : بيان إلحاقي حول الاعتداء الإرهابي على إحدى دوريات حرس الحدود بمركز سويف بالمنطقة الشمالية (machine translation)
- Date
- 5 January 2015 · 14 Rabi' al-Awwal 1436 AH
- Place
- Place not stated
- Attacker
- Iraqi militias
- Weapons
- Bombing / IED, Gunfire / clash
- Outcome
- Struck target
- Killed / injured
- 3 killed · 2 injured
- Victims
- Nationality not stated: 3 killed · 2 injured
- Confirmation
- Officially confirmed
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- General / Security spokesman for the Ministry of Interior: Supplementary statement on the terrorist attack on one of the Border Guard patrols at Suwaif center in the Northern Regionعام / المتحدث الأمني بوزارة الداخلية : بيان إلحاقي حول الاعتداء الإرهابي على إحدى دوريات حرس الحدود بمركز سويف بالمنطقة الشمالية (machine translation)
“Riyadh 14 Rabi' al-Awwal 1436 AH corresponding to 15 January 2015 AD SPA Further to what was issued today regarding a Border Guard patrol at the Suwaif center affiliated with Jadidat Arar in the Northern Border region being subjected to gunfire from terrorist elements, the security spokesman stated…”
- Saudi Arabia foils an attempt of terrorist infiltration across the Iraqi borderالسعودية تحبط محاولة تسلل إرهابية عبر الحدود العراقية (machine translation)
“The Saudi authorities, at dawn yesterday, foiled an attempt by 4 terrorists to infiltrate from Iraqi territory into Saudi territory, through the Suwaif border center, after violent clashes that resulted in the killing of two of them while two others blew themselves up. Also, 3 of the men…”