Four security guards were killed and five more injured when a suicide bomber struck outside the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, where Muhammad was buried. The security guards had tried to stop the attacker as he walked through the visitors’ car park and he detonated his explosives belt, the interior ministry said. Smoke rises above the Prophet Mohammed Mosque in Medina, where four security guards died EPA/SAUDI PRESS AGENCYSuicide bombers struck three cities across Saudi Arabia yesterday, targeting one of the holiest sites in Islam days before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Altayeb Osama, a 25-year-old Sudanese visitor to Medina and resident… The attack took place as thousands of worshippers were about to hold sunset prayers.

Source: The Times July 04, 2016 23:48 UTC