Saudi Interior Ministry says 3 Saudi citizens took part in deadly attack along Iraq border
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says that three of the four attackers who launched a deadly assault on a security patrol near the Iraqi border this week were Saudi nationals.
Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki published the names of the three in a statement on Friday. He says they had in their possession grenades, pistols, rifles, tracking devices and significant sums of money in U.S., Syrian, Iraqi and Saudi currencies.
Al-Turki says authorities have yet to confirm the fourth gunman's identity. All four gunmen died in Monday's attack, which killed three border guards.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, the first deadly assault on Saudi border guards near Iraq since the kingdom joined U.S.-led airstrikes against the Islamic State group, which controls parts of Syria and Iraq.