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Guard, gunman passed in sharpened during US consulate in Saudi Arabia

Saudi authorities were questioning Thursday after an assailant and a confidence ensure were killed in an sell of gunfire outward a US consulate in Jeddah, a gateway city for a large Hajj event holding place in Makkah.

The gunman and a Nepalese confidence ensure both died after a sell of glow outward a consulate on Wednesday evening, officials said, giving no probable ground for a incident.

“At 6:45 pm (1545 GMT), a male stopped in a automobile in front of a consulate building and got out with a arms in his hand,” a central Saudi Press Agency quoted a military orator as saying.

“Security army reacted… ensuing in an sell of glow that killed a assailant,” it said, adding that a Nepalese ensure after died of his wounds.

The sharpened coincided with a final day of a Hajj during circuitously Makkah. More than 1.6 million unfamiliar pilgrims nearing on planes and boats have streamed by coastal Jeddah en track to a rituals.

“Security investigations are still underway to discern a circumstances” of a incident, a military orator said.

The gunman’s nationality has not been revealed. US officials pronounced no Americans were harm and that a consulate had been secured.

“We offer a frank condolences to a family and desired ones of a defunct internal guards member,” a State Department pronounced in a matter in Washington.

“The consulate was reasonably sealed down and no Americans were spoiled in a attack,” it said.

The United States was in hold with a dominion as it starts a investigation, a matter added.

The US consulate in a Red Sea city has been a aim of prior attacks, including one on Jul 4, 2016 — American Independence Day — when a self-murder bomber blew himself up.

In Dec 2004, a consulate was stormed by suspected extremists in an conflict that left 5 non-American staff and contractors dead, as good as 4 gunmen.

That attack, claimed by Al-Qaeda’s Saudi branch, was a initial on a tactful goal in Saudi Arabia though one of a fibre of bombings and shootings in a dominion during a time.

In new times, Jeddah has been a heart of US tactful activity as a United States and Saudi Arabia together try to intercede between warring generals in Sudan.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited a city progressing this month when he met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler.