Deadly car explosion near Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia

May 29, 2015 20:33

A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the parking lot of a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia's eastern city of Damman, killing four people, according to the kingdom's official news agency.

The Saudi Press Agency said the bomber was parking his car at the entrance of the Imam Hussein mosque in the port city, home to a large Shia population, during Friday prayers.

It said guards approached the car as it was parking and that the driver detonated a bomb.

"Thank God, security authorities managed to foil a terrorist crime targeting worshippers," the agency said in a statement. It was unclear if the bomber was among the four dead.

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