A gunman and a security guard were killed in a shooting Wednesday at the American consulate in Saudi Arabia.
The consulate has been targeted before, the Al Jazeera report noted, citing an incident in 2016 when security noticed a suspicious person in the parking lot of a hospital across the street.
The Saudi interior ministry said the moment guards moved closer to that individual, he blew himself up via a suicide belt, killing himself and leaving two people hurt. The 2016 incident coincided with the American July 4th holiday and the close of Ramadan, the outlet stated.Thursday that in late 2004, “[T]he consulate was stormed by suspected Islamist extremists in an attack that left five non-American staff and contractors dead, as well as four gunmen.”
“That attack, claimed by Al-Qaeda’s Saudi branch, was the first on a diplomatic mission in Saudi Arabia but one of a string of bombings and shootings in the kingdom at the time,” the article said.
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