Two young men celebrated as heroes for intercepting suicide bomber

The number of casualties from the recent bomb blast at a mosque in Saudi Arabia, would have been more than what was recorded, if not for two brave young men-Mohammed Hassan Ali bin Isa and Abdul-Jalil al-Arbash.

The two young men, who were friends, were also part of a security team that volunteered to search people coming into the Imam Husseinmosque.

Eyewitness reports say the young men intercepted the bomber, who was disguised as a woman, when he tried to enter the main gate, where they were guarding, and chased him away.

A man who spoke under anonymity to the Middle East Eye said “They saved a lot of lives by stopping the bomber from getting inside the mosque. They are both heroes.”

Sources say they both died as a result of injuries they sustained, when the suicide bomber detonated the explosives in the mosque car park.