2015 Arar attack
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On 5 January 2015, two men, one strapped with a suicide vest, ambushed a border guard patrol in Arar, Saudi Arabia along the border of Iraq, killing three guards and injuring another. The guards were able to return fire and kill one of the terrorists and afterwards the suicide bomber detonated his vest.
The commander of the patrol Brigadier General Awda Muawad Al-Balawi along with two other soldiers Private Tariq Muhammad Halawi and Corporal Yahya Ahmed Najimi were killed while Corporal Salem Ta’isan Al-Anzi was injured.