Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz, who is also the Saudi interior minister, visited two security officers and a citizen wounded in the bombing in Jeddah, the state news agency SPA reported on Monday evening.
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Authorities identified the attacker as a 34-year-old Pakistani driver named Abdullah Qalzar Khan, who lived with his wife and family in the city.
Islamic State has carried out a series of bombing and shooting attacks in Saudi Arabia since mid-2014 that have killed scores of people, mostly members of the Shi’ite Muslim minority and security services.
Later the same day, al-Turki said, security forces thwarted an attempt by a suicide bomber to enter the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina, considered Islam’s second holiest site.
The blast happened immediately after two bomb blasts near a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Qatif.
Iran has been calling for rapprochement with Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia, after years of rivalry climaxed in a breakdown of diplomatic relations in January after Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Tehran.
House of Representatives speaker Ade Komarudin condemned the recent suicide bombing occurred in three Saudi Arabia cities, namely Medina, Qatif and Jeddah, on Monday, July 4, 2016.
Outrage spread on Tuesday after the suicide bombing at Medina.
In that attack, the bomber detonated his explosives after two security guards approached him, killing himself and lightly wounding the guards, the ministry said. The interior ministry said it was working to identify the remains of three bodies at the site of the blast, suggesting there may have been three attackers.
Four people were killed in the Medina explosion near the Prophet’s Mosque, which came as Muslims prepared for this week’s Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. “It is an attack on the religion itself”, said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesperson Rupert Colville.
Saudi security officials say Islamic State’s supporters inside the kingdom mainly act independently from the group in Iraq and Syria, its main areas of operations.
“He stresses the need to intensify regional and worldwide efforts to prevent and combat terrorism”, the statement said.
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Following the attack, President Joko Widodo urged calm and ordered police to quickly arrest others that may have been connected to the suicide bomber.
