Four guards killed by suicide bomb near Prophet's Mosque: Saudi ministry

Four Saudi security personnel were killed and five others wounded in a suicide bombing Monday outside one of Islam's holiest sites, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the interior ministry said. "Security forces suspected a man who was heading towards Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (the Prophet's Mosque) as he passed through a visitors parking lot," the interior ministry said in a statement. "As they tried to stop him, he blew himself up with an explosive belt causing his death, and the death of four security personnel," said the statement, adding that five others were injured.

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