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Bomb goes off at event attended by Western diplomats in Saudi Arabia

A Greek Consulate employee and a Saudi guard were injured in an attack at a cemetery in Jeddah.
Saudi police close a street leading to a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi city of Jeddah where a bomb struck a World War I commemoration attended by European diplomats on November 11, 2020 leaving several people wounded amid Muslim anger over French cartoons. - The attack is the second assault in the kingdom in less than a month, as French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to assuage anger across Muslim nations over satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty

A bomb exploded at a ceremony attended by Western diplomats in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. It was the second such attack in two weeks.

On Wednesday morning local time, an improvised explosive device went off at an event commemorating the end of World War I held in a cemetery in the coastal city of Jeddah. The embassies of France, Greece, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States were “associated” with the event, according to a joint statement from their diplomatic missions. Saudi first responders came to the scene to assist, according to the embassies.

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