at the security headquarters of the mosque where the Prophet Muhammad is buried, popularly called Prophet's Mosque in Medina, western Saudi Arabia, and one of Islam's holiest sites, as the evening prayers was coming to an end, on Monday, 4th July, 2016. The blew himself and four security officers up as they tried to stop him.
Saudi Arabia interior ministry also reported two other explosions. A bomb went off near a mosque in the eastern Gulf coast of Qatif, and home to many minority Shia Muslims, only the suicide bomber was killed in the blast that went off just before 7pm local time.
Another hit close to the United States consulate in Jeddah, western part of Saudi Arabia, on Monday, 4th July, in-which two security officers were injured. These happened as Muslims rounded off the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
No terrorist group has so far claims of responsibility for any of the attacks.
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