It said he lived in the port city with “his wife and her parents.: The statement did not elaborate”.
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The BBC reports that an interior ministry spokesman has named a suicide bomber whose attack killed four security officers near a mosque in the sacred city of Medina as Naer Muslim Hamad, a 26-year-old Saudi man.
These terrorist attacks came even as the militant group was being driven out of much of the territory under its control in Syria and Iraq, and marked a dramatic shift in its strategy to extend its terror war to other regions.
The attack, which sparked condemnation across the Muslim world, coincided with another suicide blast in Shiite-dominated Qatif, in the kingdom’s east, where the only casualty was the bomber.
The first attack on Monday took place in the western city of Jeddah, where two security officers were wounded when the suicide bomber blew himself up near the United States consulate.
Regional political actors on Tuesday condemned a string of suicide attacks that rocked different parts of Saudi Arabia one day earlier, killing nine people.
In a message, Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif condemned the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia which killed at least four security men and called for an global response to terrorism.
The interior ministry said a Pakistani resident, Abdullah Qalzar Khan, 35, carried out the Jeddah attack.
According to an ISPR statement, the COAS phoned Saudi Defence Minister Prince Muhammad bin Salman and condemned the attacks.
The jihadist group has claimed or been blamed for a wave of shootings and bombings during the holy month this year, including in Orlando, Bangladesh, Istanbul and Baghdad.
The UN human rights chief described the bombing outside the Prophet Mohammed’s mosque in Medina as “an attack on Islam itself”.
The ministry said the deadly Medina attack occurred during sunset prayers after which Muslims break their Ramadan fast.
Other blasts occurred in the Red Sea city of Jeddah near the USA consulate and in Shiite-dominated Qatif on the other side of the country.
The blast followed two more attacks, in Jeddah and Qatif, also on Monday.
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“The security of the homeland is good, it is at its highest levels and thanks be to God it gets stronger every day”, the state news agency SPA quoted him as saying during a visit to some of the wounded in the Jeddah attack. There are around 9 million foreigners living in Saudi Arabia, which has a total population of 30 million.
