“Security forces reacted... resulting in an exchange of fire that killed the assailant,“ it said. theSun thesundaily securityguard gunman Jeddah Muslim RedSea
: A security guard and a gunman were killed in an exchange of gunfire in front of the US consulate in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on Wednesday, officials said.
“At 6:45 pm , a man stopped in a car in front of the consulate building and got out with a weapon in his hand,“ the official Saudi Press Agency quoted a police spokesman as saying.A Nepalese security officer was wounded and later died, it said. The State Department said that Saudi forces killed the assailant and that the United States was in touch with the kingdom as it starts an investigation.The attack occurred as Saudi Arabia welcomed some 1.8 million Muslim faithful for the annual hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca, some 70 kilometres from Jeddah.
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