NEW DELHI: The Saudi royal court officially announced the demise of 62-year-old prince Talal bin Abdulaziz bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The statement indicated that funeral prayers for the late royal will be conducted at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh.
The announcement did not disclose the cause of Prince Talal’s death.
However, it is noteworthy that he was reportedly piloting the Saudi Arabian Air Force‘s F-15SA fighter plane on December 7, and the aircraft crashed in Dhahran.
According to Lebanon’s Al Mashhad news outlet, the prince met his unfortunate end during a training exercise with the Air Force on that Thursday.
Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a descendant of the first Saudi monarch, King Abdulaziz, and the son of Prince Bandar, was born in 1961.
He held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Saudi Air Force and served as the assistant intelligence chief at the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), the Saudi intelligence agency, from 2004 to 2012.
The announcement did not disclose the cause of Prince Talal’s death.
However, it is noteworthy that he was reportedly piloting the Saudi Arabian Air Force‘s F-15SA fighter plane on December 7, and the aircraft crashed in Dhahran.
According to Lebanon’s Al Mashhad news outlet, the prince met his unfortunate end during a training exercise with the Air Force on that Thursday.
Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a descendant of the first Saudi monarch, King Abdulaziz, and the son of Prince Bandar, was born in 1961.
He held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Saudi Air Force and served as the assistant intelligence chief at the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), the Saudi intelligence agency, from 2004 to 2012.
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