Firing outside US conculate in Jeddah Saudi Arabia
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The attacker got down from the car
Saudi Arabia’s official news agency cited Saudi police as saying that a man carrying a gun had alighted from a vehicle outside the consulate. According to the news agency, ‘the authorities took action to deal with the situation after realizing it.’
The news agency reported that the consular security guard who was killed was a citizen of Nepal. The US embassy and consulate are in contact with Saudi authorities as they investigate the incident. The US consulate in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah has been attacked in the past.
The embassy was last targeted in 2016 in the city of 4.7 million people. At that time a suicide bomber blew himself up in the parking lot in front of the embassy. The attacker was present in the parking lot and blew himself up as security personnel approached him.
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