An interior ministry
spokesman also named a suicide bomber who killed four security officers near a mosque in the sacred city of
Medina as Naer Muslim Hamad, a 26-year-old Saudi man.
The
ministry said he had a history of drug abuse.
Three
people who allegedly carried out attacks in Qatif were also named. Their
nationalities are not clear.
Their
names were given as Abdulrahman al-Omar (23), Ibrahim al-Omar (20) and
Abdulkarim al-Husni (20). The ministry said none of them had Saudi IDs.
The
attacks in Qatif took place on the same day and were also suicide bombings.
A man died in Jeddah on Monday when attempting to detonate
a bomb.
No
group has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet but they are suspected to
have been the work of people with allegiances to so-called Islamic State.
The group has
targeted Saudi security personnel before. Some online observers pointed out that the guards had
been protecting the Sunni-ruled country's Shia, who IS considers irredeemable
apostates subject to punishment by death, and facilitating their access to the
sacred cities Medina and Mecca.
The attacks happened
at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, shocking many moderate Muslims. But
after an IS spokesman called for "a month of calamity for
unbelievers" there have been multiple attacks carried out by IS sympathisers across
the world during Ramadan this year.
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Source: BBC
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