Saudi religious police man attacked

Assailants suspected to be related to drug and alcohol dealers attacked a member of Saudi Arabia’s religious police with a Molotov cocktail bomb, causing severe burns in his face and body, newspapers said on Tuesday.

Sheikh Murshid Al Mousa, a member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, was driving to his office in Riyadh when the bomb was thrown on his car, setting it ablaze and forcing him to jump out.

“As he tried to leave the car, Sheikh Murshid was caught by fire but he managed to put it out…he suffered from burns in his face and body,” Ajel daily said.

It quoted police as saying Mousa had received threats from the brothers of a man, who was seized by the Sheikh and other Commission members for possessing drugs and liquor.