2015 Saihat shooting

2015 Saihat shooting
Location	Saihat, Qatif, Saudi Arabia
Date	16 October 2015
Target	Shia Muslims
Weapons	Kalashnikov rifle
Deaths	6 (including the attacker)
Injured	9
Perpetrator	ISIS
Motive	Anti-Shi'ism

The 2015 Saihat shooting was a terrorist attack by the Islamic State in the city of Saihat, Qatif, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. A resident claimed that the assailant approached a Hussainiya in a taxi, but was stopped at a checkpoint manned by volunteers protecting the site. The suspect started shooting randomly inside the building, before the police intervened and killed the suspect.

Attack

A resident stated that the assailant approached the Hussainiya in a taxi but was stopped at a checkpoint manned by volunteers protecting the site. A ministry interior spokesmen stated that at about 7 pm a suspect with an automatic weapon "started to shoot randomly" at a Shiite Hussainiya l used for commemorations in Saihat. As a result of his shooting, five citizens (four men and one woman) were killed. Nine others were wounded. The militant was later shot dead by the police.

Responsibility

The Islamic State claimed the attack in a statement, claiming that the militant was named "Shuja al-Dawsari". They stated, “With the approval of God Almighty, the soldier of the caliphate Shuja al-Dawsari, may God accept him, set his Kalashnikov upon one of the apostate polytheists’ temples”.