Aoun calls Asiri, condemns bombings in the kingdom

Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun phone called on Wednesday the Saudi ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Asiri.

 

During the call, Aoun condemned the “terrorist bombings that targeted the kingdom.”

 

He also congratulated Asiri for the Eid el-Fitr holiday.

A suicide bomber was killed and two other people wounded in a blast near the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia's second city of Jeddah early on Monday (July 4), state TV said.

The attacker parked his car outside a hospital near the consulate at about 2.15am local time and shortly afterwards his device detonated, killing him and lightly wounding two security men nearby, state TV said, quoting a security spokesman.

Three further blasts rocked the location of the bombing, a witness told Reuters, as police carried out what appeared to be controlled explosions near the site.

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.