(MENAFN- The Peninsula) A suicide bomber set off an explosion during weekly prayers in a Shia mosque of eastern Saudi Arabia leaving many dead Friday, the interior ministry said.
"It has been established that an individual detonated a bomb he was wearing under his clothes during Friday prayers at Ali Ibn Abi Taleb mosque in Kudeih in Qatif province," the interior ministry spokesman said.
The spokesman, in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency, said the attack left many dead and wounded, without giving a specific toll.
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