An interior ministry statement issued on Tuesday identified the man behind the Jeddah attack as 34-year-old Abdullah Qalzar Khan.
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Saudi Arabia has 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. Several security guards were killed when a terrorist detonated his explosives near the security headquarters of the Prophet’s Mosque in the western city of Medina.
Explosions were set off in the city of Medina – close to the Prophet’s Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites – the eastern city of Qatif and near the U.S. consulate in Jeddah. They were identified as Abdulrahman al-Omar, Ibrahim al-Omar and Abdulkarim al-Husni.
No group has claimed responsibility but Daesh has carried out a number of similar bombings in the kingdom in the past year, targeting Shi’ite Muslims and Saudi security forces.
At the same time as the Medina attack, across the country in the Shiite-populated Gulf city of Qatif another suicide bombing took place near a Shiite mosque, residents and the interior ministry said.
The Prophet Muhammad’s mosque was packed on Monday evening, during the final days of the Muslim holy month of Ramazan, which ended on Tuesday.
Mr Zeid Ra’ad Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a member of the Jordanian royal family, also condemned the attacks in his remarks via a spokesman in Geneva. Four security officers have been killed in a significant escalation of violence in the region.
The Prophet’s Mosque is the second holiest site in Islam and millions of Muslims visit each year from around the world, as part of their pilgrimage to Mecca.
No-one has yet said they were behind any of the attacks.
A Saudi security official said an attacker parked a auto near the United States consulate in Jeddah before detonating the device.
Many observers suspect the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) of being behind the bombings.
Four people and the attacker were killed, the source said, as people broke their fast on the last night of Ramadan.
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Earlier, at least one explosion rocked Qatif, an eastern city which is home to many minority Shia Muslims.
