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| Saudis arrest 12 Pakistanis over bombs | Saudis arrest 12 Pakistanis over bombs |
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| Saudi officials say 12 out of 19 people arrested over Monday's three bomb attacks in the country are Pakistani. | Saudi officials say 12 out of 19 people arrested over Monday's three bomb attacks in the country are Pakistani. |
| An interior ministry spokesman also named a suicide bomber who killed four security officers near a mosque in the sacred city of Medina as Naer Muslim Hamad, a 26-year-old Saudi man. | An interior ministry spokesman also named a suicide bomber who killed four security officers near a mosque in the sacred city of Medina as Naer Muslim Hamad, a 26-year-old Saudi man. |
| The ministry said he had a history of drug abuse. | The ministry said he had a history of drug abuse. |
| Three people who allegedly carried out attacks in Qatif were also named. Their nationalities are not clear. | Three people who allegedly carried out attacks in Qatif were also named. Their nationalities are not clear. |
| Their names were given as Abdulrahman al-Omar (23), Ibrahim al-Omar (20) and Abdulkarim al-Husni (20). The ministry said none of them had Saudi IDs. | |
| The attacks in Qatif took place on the same day and were also suicide bombings. | |
| A man died in Jeddah on Monday when attempting to detonate a bomb. | |
| No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet but they are suspected to have been the work of people with allegiances to so-called Islamic State. |