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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman receives Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Bahrain’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, and Yemeni President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi at his palace in Riyadh on Sunday. -- SPA[/caption]RIYADH – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman received condolences for the second day on Sunday on the death of his brother Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz.
The King received at his palace in Irqah, Riyadh, a number of leaders and envoys of leaders, who came to offer condolences on the death of Prince Turki.
They included Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Bahrain’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, and Yemeni President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi.
The envoys of leaders included Sheikh Hamad Bin Mohammed Al-Sharqi, representative of UAE president and ruler of Sharjah, Lt. Gen. Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE’s deputy prime minister and minister of interior, Haitham Bin Tariq Al Said, Oman’s minister of heritage and culture and representative of Sultan Qaboos, Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwait’s deputy chief of National Guard and representative of amir, Al-Azher Al-Qarawi Al-Shabby, representative of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, Hishamuddin Hussein, Malaysian minister of defense, and American Ambassador to the Kingdom Joseph Westphal, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The King also received several princes, scholars, ministers, senior civil and military officials and citizens who came to offer condolences. Prince Ahmad, Prince Muqrin, Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense, and sons of Prince Turki also received condolences from several princes, officials and citizens.
Several heads of state and Muslim leaders held telephone talks with King Salman, offering him their condolences and expressing sorrow over the death of Prince Turki. They included Jordan’s King Abdullah, Turkish President Rajjab Tayyeb Erdogan, President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan, President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine, President of Djibouti Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Lebanese Premier-designate Saad Al-Hariri, and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. King Salman thanked them for their noble and sincere feelings.
