RIYADH // Saudi Arabia says one of its citizens carried out the suicide bombing at a mosque in the country’s south on Monday night – an attack for which the ISIL group claimed responsibility.
The bomber was identified as 34-year-old Saad Saeed Saad Al Harthy, interior ministry spokesman Maj Gen Mansour Al Turki said on Tuesday.
The blast struck the mosque belonging to the Ismaili Shiite minority in the city of Najran after sunset on Monday, killing one person and wounding several others.
Site intelligence group, which monitors extremist activity online, says an ISIL affiliate known as Hijaz Province claimed it carried out the attack.
It was the fourth bombing targeting Saudi mosques and claimed by ISIL affiliates since May.
* Associated Press
