Medina blast: Saudi city 'hit by suicide bomber'

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July 4 2016

 

Footage showed a blazing vehicle near the mosque

 

A suicide bomber has attacked the Saudi city of Medina, close to the Prophet's Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites, al-Arabiya TV and the Okaz newspaper report.

 

Footage on al-Arabiya showed a blazing vehicle. There are no details of casualties and no official comment.

 

The mosque is the burial place of the Prophet Muhammad and Medina the second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca.

 

Earlier, at least one explosion rocked the eastern city of Qatif.

 

Qatif is home to many minority Shia Muslims and the blast appeared to target a Shia mosque. No casualties have been reported so far.

 

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Three dead in Saudi Medina blast, including bomber

7/4/16

 

RIYADH - At least three people were killed in the blast outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina in Saudi Arabia on Monday, including a suicide bomber and two security officers, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported.

 

The bomber detonated his device as the security officers were breaking their day-long fast for Ramadan, Arabiya reported

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Explosion heard in Saudi city of Qatif, body parts seen: witness
Mon Jul 4, 2016 2:20pm EDT

Two explosions shook the city of Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia, where many of the kingdom's Shi'ite Muslim minority live, and witnesses said body parts could be seen in the area of the blast.

A witness said one explosion destroyed a car parked near a mosque, followed by another explosion just before 7 p.m. local time. Body parts could be seen and they are believed to be that of an attacker, the witness added.

Photographs purporting to be of the incident published on Twitter showed a severed leg and crowds gathered outside a mosque at dusk. Some posts said the explosion was caused by a suicide attacker setting off a bomb.

Reuters could not immediately verify the images or confirm the information.

 

The incident happened just hours after a suicide bomber was killed and two people were wounded in a blast near the U.S. consulate in the kingdom's second city of Jeddah on Monday.

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Saudi Arabia identifies Jeddah suicide bomber as Pakistani
July 5 2016



Riyadh: Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has said that bombing near the American consulate in Jeddah in the early hours of US Independence Day on Monday was carried out by a Pakistani resident.

Two security officers were wounded in the blast.

The suspect has been identified as 35-year-old Abdullah Waqar Khan, a chauffeur who had been living with his wife and her parents in Jeddah for 12 years.

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Nineteen people arrested over Saudi Arabia attacks
The bombing at the prophet's mosque killed four security officers and came on same day as attacks in Qatif and Jeddah.

 

Saudi Arabia has arrested 12 Pakistanis and seven Saudis in connection with the suicide bombing on the prophet's mosque in the city of Medina and other attacks in Jeddah and Qatif.

 

Saudi Arabia said a suicide bomber who attacked the prophet's mosque in the city of Medina on Monday was a 26-year-old Saudi citizen with a history of drug abuse.

 

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"The kingdom is fully determined to strike with an iron fist all those who aim at the minds or ideas of our dear young people," Salman said on Tuesday, in an address to the nation for the Islamic feast of Eid al-Fitr.

 

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