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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
A good exploded at a memorial service at the end of WWI in a non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday (11/11).
It is known that the commemoration was attended by diplomats from Western countries such as France, Greece, Italy, Great Britain and the United States. According to a joint statement, the consulate condemned the incident as a cowardly attack.
Reported AFPAt least two witnesses opened their voices when the bomb spoiled the event.
According to the eyewitness, Nadia Chaaya, the bomb exploded when the French consulate was making a speech at the ceremony.
“At the end of the speech we heard an explosion. At first we didn’t really understand it, but then we realized that we were the target,” Chaaya said. BFMTV French.
“We panicked and we were worried that there would be a second explosion. We left the grave and everyone separated,” he said.
Another witness, Mohammed Belmaziz, said that amid the chaos and screaming, he saw a person with his face covered in blood.
At least four people were reportedly injured, namely a Greek policeman, a British citizen and a Saudi policeman who suffered minor injuries. Meanwhile, another person who has not been identified but was reported to be in a panic and covered in blood.
According to a photographer AFP At the scene, the Saudi traffic police have closed the road to the cemetery in central Jeddah.
“The (Saudi) security service will launch an investigation into the assault incident at an event attended by several consulates in Jeddah,” Al-Ekhbariya state television reported.
In addition to condemning the attack, the embassy also praised the preparation of the Saudis who assisted them on the spot. The European delegation in Saudi Arabia also thanked the Saudi emergency services and urged local authorities to carry out a “swift and thorough investigation” of the attack.
Earlier, the French embassy in Riyadh had urged citizens in Saudi Arabia to exercise “extreme vigilance” since the stabbing incident at the French consulate in Jeddah on Thursday (10/29).
The incident occurred on the same day that a man armed with a knife killed three people at the Notre Dame Basilica Church in Nice, southern France.
The explosion at the commemoration of the First World War on Wednesday (11/11) also marked a series of terror that occurred in Jeddah.
The recent attacks come as soon as French President Emmanuel Macron infuriated most Muslim-majority countries.
Macron has come under fire for defending the reissue of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and a number of other controversial statements.
In addition to echoing the condemnation, several countries have also called for a boycott of products made in France on social media.
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