Shots fired at Saudi Arabia’s religious police

A Saudi man reportedly opened fire on religious police in the city of Tabuk in the northwest of the country on Thursday. He was initially chased away from a girls’ school by members of the ‘Committee of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice’, then reportedly returned with a kalashnikov and started shooting at them. No one was injured in the incident, but the religious police’s vehicle was hit with five bullets. Saudi authorities are investigating.

 

Saudis took to Twitter using #اطلاق_نار_على_هيئة_تبوك (Shots fired at Tabuk’s religious police) to debate who instigated the shooting. The hashtag was used more than 2,800 times.

 

This image allegedly shows the vehicle that was shot at: