Suicide bomber kills 13 in mosque

A suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in a local security forces headquarters in Abha city in south-west Saudi Arabia killed 13 people and wounded nine yesterday, the Saudi state news agency reported. Of those killed, 10 were members of the force, while three were workers in the compound. They were praying when the bomber struck within their ranks, the agency said.

In May and June suicide bomb attacks on Shi’ite mosques in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait killed 52 worshippers.