Riyadh, July 4, 2016 – A suicide bomber blew himself up near the American consulate in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Jeddah in the early hours of U.S. The Saudi interior ministry said the two officers suffered minor injuries, while the American embassy in Riyadh said there were no casualties or injuries among U.S. consulate staff. The interior ministry said security personnel became suspicious of the man near the parking lot of a hospital which is across from the U.S. diplomatic mission. They all confessed to plotting attacks against a Shiite mosque and an interior ministry target, the ministry said in a statement. In May the interior ministry said four suspected jihadists died — two by blowing themselves up — during a raid east of Jeddah.

Source: National Post July 04, 2016 12:45 UTC