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| Suicide bomber strikes near Prophet’s Mosque in holy Saudi city of Medina (VIDEO) | |
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| A bomb exploded outside the Prophet’s Mosque in the Saudi city of Medina – one of the holiest sites in Islam – on Monday night, local state television reported. | |
| Multiple videos flooding social media showed charred corpses lying next to the burning husk of a car in the mosque’s car park, as police and ambulance sirens blared, and hundreds of onlookers filmed footage on their smartphones. | Multiple videos flooding social media showed charred corpses lying next to the burning husk of a car in the mosque’s car park, as police and ambulance sirens blared, and hundreds of onlookers filmed footage on their smartphones. |
| Monday is the last night of the holy month of Ramadan, and marks the beginning of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar. | Monday is the last night of the holy month of Ramadan, and marks the beginning of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar. |
| Also known as Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the Prophet’s mosque is one of the holiest sites in Islam. It was the second mosque ever built, with the aid of Mohammed himself, who lived in a house next door. His tomb is still located there – sealed off from worshippers – and an iconic green-painted dome has been built over it. | |
| Other explosions took place Monday in the port city of Jeddah, and Qatif, an eastern city populated by the predominantly-Sunni country’s embattled Shia minority. | Other explosions took place Monday in the port city of Jeddah, and Qatif, an eastern city populated by the predominantly-Sunni country’s embattled Shia minority. |
| The Jeddah blast occurred outside the US consulate, and the Qatif explosion took place next to a crowded Shia mosque. In both incidents no one but the bombers themselves died as a result. |