Saudi Deputy Interior Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, has escaped a suicide bomb attack in his office in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.
Source: Press TV
- According to the official news agency SPA, the top Saudi security official who is responsible for the kingdom's anti-terror fight survived the attack on Thursday evening while meeting well-wishers for the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan.
- The agency further added that the prince suffered only superficial injuries after the suicide bomber got close to him and detonated his explosives hidden inside his mobile phone.
- Prince Nayef was later shown on Saudi television meeting with the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah after he was treated at a hospital for minor injuries. The suicide bomber was the only casualty of the incident.
- The attack was the first known assassination attempt against a senior member of the royal family since 1975, when King Faisal was shot dead at point-blank range by a nephew, Prince Faisal bin Musaed. The prince was beheaded in a public square in Riyadh three months later.
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