Here is a picture of two lads taken just hours before they were martyred this afternoon, having stopped an ISIS suicide bomber from entering a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia.
A much higher death toll was avoided thanks to the two young civilians, who stopped the man from entering the Imam Hussain mosque in al-Anoud district of Dammam.
Witnesses told local press the man was wearing a woman's abaya (black cloak worn by women) and tried to enter the Mosque by the female entrance but it was shut. He was barred from entering by Mohammed Hassan Ali bin Isa and Saeed Abdel Jaleel Jumaa al-Arbash, the two young lads, who had been tasked with manning a civilian checkpoint.
Unable to enter the mosque, the terrorist detonated his bomb around five metres outside the entrance, killing himself and the two lads as well as one other person whose identity has yet to be discovered.
The two lads were rightfully hailed as heroes after footage from inside the mosque was posted to Twitter, showing just how high the death toll might have been.
Saeed had only recently returned from studying in the United States and had been married just a few days before the tragic incident.
Mohammed's mother is a high-profile writer for Al-Jazira and the news of her son's death was met with a huge outpouring of support.
They saved a lot of lives by stopping the bomber from getting inside the mosque. They are both heroes.local, speaking to Middle East Eye
This is the second bomb to hit Saudi Arabia's Shiite-majority Eastern Province in a week after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a mosque, killing 21 and injuring 100 others in another Islamic State attack.
