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This file photo taken on July 4, 2016 shows Saudi Emir of Medina Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz (2R) and security officers looking at blood stains on the ground after a suicide attack near the security headquarters outside one of Islam's holiest sites, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina. Nineteen people, including 12 Pakistani nationals, have been arrested in Saudi Arabia following suicide attacks, including one near Islam's second-holiest site in the city of Medina, the kingdom's Interior Ministry said on July 7, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / STR

Saudi Arabia said a suicide bomber who attacked the prophet’s mosque in the city of Medina on Monday was a 26-year-old Saudi citizen with a history of drug abuse.

Twelve Pakistanis and seven Saudis have been detained in relation to attacks that day.

In Medina, 26-year-old Naer Muslim Hamad crossed a parking lot next to the mosque and detonated an explosive belt, killing four soldiers, the state news agency SPA quoted an interior ministry spokesman as saying.

The statement also named three individuals it said carried out attacks on Monday in Qatif. It said none of them had obtained Saudi IDs.

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