Deadly car explosion near Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia

Four reported dead in blast in Qatif province, which has been claimed by ISIL.

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.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bombing was the second targeting the religious minority in a week.

A witness, identified only as Ahmed, told Reuters news agency he was with his family near the mosque when "a quick explosion" happened. He did not know the cause of the blast.
He said acquaintances at the mosque told him an attendant was killed along with a bomber when he tried to prevent him from reaching it.

The bombing comes a week after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a Shia mosque in the village of al-Qudeeh in the kingdom's Qatif province during Friday prayers, killing at least 21 people and wounding several others, in an attack also claimed by ISIL.

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