Officials: Blast atWWI ceremony wounds 3

An explosion at a Saudi cemetery where American and European officials were commemorating the end of World War I wounded three people Wednesday, according to official statements. The attack in the city of Jiddah follows on the heels of a stabbing last month that lightly wounded a guard at the French Consulate in the same city. It’s not clearwhatmotivated the stabbing orWednesday’s blast, but France has been the target of three attacks in recent weeks that authorities have attributed to Muslim extremists.

“Such attacks on innocent people are shameful and entirely without justification,” said a joint statement issued by the embassies of France, the U.K., Greece, Italy and the U.S., whose officials were in attendance.

One U.K. national suffered minor injuries, according to the British government, while Greece’s Foreign Ministry said a Greek policeman serving in the country’s Consulate in Jiddah was wounded.