Gaza security shuts mobile company's main office in PM bomb probe


  • World
  • Sunday, 18 Mar 2018

A Palestinian boy rides his bicycle past the closed building of Wataniya Mobile company in Gaza City March 18, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas-run security services in Gaza have shut down a cellular company's headquarters over its alleged failure to cooperate in their investigation of a suspected attempt to assassinate the Palestinian prime minister, security officials said on Sunday.

In addition to the closure on Saturday of the Wataniya firm's main office in Gaza, several employees of a second Palestinian mobile operator, Jawwal, were briefly detained as part of the probe into Tuesday's bomb blast, the officials said.

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