Baku-APA. The suicide bomber who caused a blast near Prophet Mohammed's mosque in the Saudi city of Medina on Monday killed 4 police officers and seriously injured four others, APA reports quoting Al Arabiya.
The bomber targeted the parking lots of the emergency forces vehicles in the west side of Medina near the grand mosque while policemen were having their fast-breaking meal.
He told them that he want to join them for food before blowing himself up.
No official information was released from the Saudi Interior Ministry yet, but this blast was the fourth reported in different Saudi cities on Monday.
The day started with a suicide bomber blowing himself in Jeddah at a parking lots of a hospital, in which two security men were injured.
Twin blasts were reported in Qatif near a mosque, and the worshipers escaped unhurt.
The worst was in Medina as there were thousands who were at the grand mosque during the blast and the police shot near mosque to avoid any stampede by scary worshipers.
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Baku-APA. A suicide bomber detonated a device near the security headquarters of the Prophet's Mosque in Madina, Saudi Arabia, the second-holiest site in Islam, APA reports quoting Al-Arabiya television.
The blast followed others in Qatif and Jeddah on Monday.
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in Qatif.
None was hurt in the blast, residents told AFP.
"Suicide bomber for sure. I can see the body" which was blasted to pieces, said a witness to the attack.
In the early hours of Monday, a foreign suicide bomber blew himself up near the American consulate in Saudi Arabia's western city of Jeddah.
Two security officers were slightly wounded, the interior ministry said. The American embassy in Riyadh reported no injuries among US consulate staff.
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