Security Spokesman: Attempt to carry out terrorist act against police station in Taif foiled, martyrdom of a soldier Riyadh, Sha'ban 1, 1437, May 8, 2016, SPA -- The Security Spokesman of the Interior Ministry stated that an attempt to implement a terrorist act against a police station in Haddad in Bani Malik, Taif province has been aborted. Security officers on duty at the police station have monitored an attempt by two people to infiltrate into the cars parking of the police station, at one o'clock after midnight, yesterday, Saturday, May 07, 2016, and when they felt they were being monitored, they started firing from a machine gun and escaped after an exchange of fire with them from the site against a vehicle that was waiting for them. After having pursued them and disabled their vehicle, they got out of it, fled on feet and took refuge in one of the mountainous residential areas in the village of Thaqeef; they were surrounded and the area was combed in search for them with the help of residents in the area. The Security Spokesman said that the exchange of fire resulted in the martyrdom of the first soldier named Saeed Duhaish Aidhah Al-Harthy and the seizure of an explosive belt and nine elbow pipes equipped as bombs and they were dismantled by the specialists. Field follow-up is going on and any further details will be duly announced. --SPA 12:38 LOCAL TIME 09:38 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w