19 People Arrested over Saudi Arabia Attacks
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Saudi Arabia 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, Al Jazeera reported.
Naer Muslim Hamad crossed a parking lot next to the mosque and detonated an explosive belt, killing four soldiers, the state news agency SPA quoted an interior ministry spokesman as saying.
The statement also named three individuals it said carried out attacks on Monday in Qatif. It said none of them had obtained Saudi IDs.
The Medina attack, 24 hours before the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, drew condemnation from Muslim leaders worldwide.
A bombing near the US consulate in Jeddah on the same day killed only the attacker, and no casualties other than the bomber have been reported in Qatif.
The Saudi interior ministry identified the Jeddah attacker as Abdullah Waqar Khan, a Pakistani national in his early 30s. In a tweet, the ministry said that Khan, a driver, had moved to Jeddah 12 years ago to live with his wife and her parents.
Pakistan said on Tuesday that it was going to investigate whether the suicide bomber in Jeddah was one of its nationals.
Many observers suspect the Daesh (also known as ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group of being behind the bombings.
