Maj. Gen. Khidr Al-Zahrani, assistant director general of Public Security for security affairs, said that a new law fixing salary of security guards would be issued within a few months. Provisions would be made in the law to ensure attractive pay and perks to security guards.
He said that intensive training would be made available to them, Al-Madinah local daily reported on Monday. According to Al-Zahrani, the new law aimed at addressing the current low salaries for Saudi security guards as well as to attract them to continue in the field.
“There will be six-week intensive training program that includes both theory and practical. Security guards will receive training in all relevant fields such as using weapons, practicing karate, and rendering first aid,” he said, adding that during training period they would get at least SR1,000 in stipend.
New law in offing to fix salary of security guards
New law in offing to fix salary of security guards
Saudi Arabia condemns blast that hit mosque in Alawite area of Syria’s Homs
- Homs’s press office said an explosive device had detonated inside the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib mosque and that security forces had cordoned off the area
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia condemned an explosion at a mosque of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday that killed eight people.
The city’s press office said an explosive device had detonated inside the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib mosque and that security forces had cordoned off the area.
Syrian news agency SANA cited health ministry official Najib Al-Naasan as saying 18 others were wounded and that the figures were not final, indicating they could rise.
Extremist Syrian group Saraya Ansar Al-Sunnah said on its Telegram channels that it carried out the attack. The group previously claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Damascus church in June that killed 20 people.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said: “The Kingdom affirms its categorical rejection of terrorism, extremism, targeting of mosques and places of worship, and terrorizing innocent people. It expresses its solidarity with Syria in this great tragedy, and its support for the Syrian government’s efforts to establish security and stability.”
The statement extended the Kingdom’s condolences to the families of the victims and to the government and people of Syria. It also wished the injured a speedy recovery.
