Two heroes who saves Mosque from ISIS Attack

This two young men were reportedly saved people in mosque from ISIS attacker

In an account from Independent.co.uk, this two friends,who were being hailed as heroes after being killed when the suicide bomber blew himself up, stopped an ISIS suicide bomber from entering a mosque in Saudi Arabia are .

The friends, named as Mohammed Hassan Ali bin Isa and Abdul-Jalil al-Arbash, died after reportedly turning the attacker away from the Imam Hussein mosque in Dammam today.

eyewitnesses claim the man was disguised as a woman and tried to enter through a closed female entrance before going to the main gate, where the pair were manning a civilian checkpoint.

“They saved a lot of lives by stopping the bomber from getting inside the mosque,” a local man, who asked to remain anonymous, told Middle East Eye. “They are both heroes.”

Mohammed Idris, an eyewitness, told the Associated Press that Mohammed and Abdul-Jalil chased the bomber away and died when he detonated the explosives in the mosque car park.

“They chased the suicide bomber when he tried to enter the women's section of the mosque in the south entrance,” he added.

Abdul-Jalil was reportedly 25 and had recently returned from studying at university in the US, getting married just days ago. The bomb exploded in the car park of the mosque in Dammam

One of the men’s mothers, Kowther al-Arbash, is a high-profile writer for Saudi newspaper al-Jazira, Middle East Eye reported.

Photos of the pair were circulating on social media today, with people calling them heroes and “martyrs”.

Videos also emerged claiming to show the fathers of both men praising their sons' heroism.

A video from inside the al-Anoud mosque showed the moment the explosion was heard outside, with prayers being interrupted by a huge blast that shook the building, causing people to jump to their feet and shout in the ensuing panic.