On Monday, three Saudi Arabian cities were hit by a tornado of suicide bombings. These bombings happened over a 24-hour period in which three different cities of Saudi Arabia Jeddah, Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia and Medina was targeted.
There has been no claim of responsibility to these attacks but analysts believe that these dreadful attacks could be the work of the terror group ISIS. Two out of three attacks were failed but four people were killed in the third one. The attackers targeted Saudi security forces and Western interests.
The first attack was pulled off near the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah before dawn where the bomber killed only himself after detonating an explosive. Though policemen were injured in this attack but no life was lost. Jeddah attacker was identified as Abdullah Qlazar Khan who was a Pakistani national. The sources revealed that Abdullah was 34-year-old and he lived in Jeddah with his wife and one of his parents. He moved to Saudi Arabia 12 years ago and worked as a driver. Abdullah blew himself with an explosives belt.
The second attack occurred in Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia where a suicide bomber attempted to blow a Shiite mosque but ended up killing himself in the process. There were no injuries in this attack.
The deadliest of all happened in Medina. A suicide bomber targeted a security post outside the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina which is a major spot in Islam and four people were killed in this attack. The ministry said that other than four killings, 5 people were injured in this attack.
The names of the people who lost their lives are not revealed yet.
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5 July 2016
Avni S. Singh