HABIB TOUMI/GULF NEWS
Bahraini and Saudi Arabian security forces collaborated to uncover the circumstances behind an attempt to smuggle RDX — a highly explosive material — and detonators intended for use in Saudi Arabia, said Maj. Gen. Tariq Hassan Al Hassan, Bahrain’s public security chief.
Security personnel on the King Fahd Causeway, the 25-kilometer land link between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, foiled an attempt to smuggle RDX and detonators, a spokesperson for the Saudi Interior Ministry said in May 2015.
The Saudi security men had doubts about two men driving into Saudi Arabia and decided to search their car. The search yielded 14 bags carefully hidden inside the back seats. According to the spokesperson, 11 bags contained more than 30 kilos of RDX, and two bags had 50 blasting caps. The last bag contained a 6-meter detonator cord.
Al Hassan paid tribute to the Saudi security officers for their competence and high vigilance that enabled them to foil the smuggling attempt and to arrest the perpetrators. He added that bilateral cooperation had yielded laudable successes in many complex security operations.