Blast in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia kills four

The blast took place in a non-Muslim cemetery

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A blast in a non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killed four.


“There was some sort of a blast at the non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah. There are four slightly injured, among them one Greek,” a Greek government official told Reuters.

The blast took place during a Remembrance Day ceremony in which the Consul General of France in Jeddah was attending, alongside French expatriates.

Two were injured due to the blast. The incident comes a month after a guard was allegedly stabbed outside the French consulate in Jeddah. And amidst fury in the Muslim world sparked by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has refused to disavow Charlie Hebdo's satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

A teacher in Paris who showed these cartoons to students was beheaded last month.

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