A suicide bomber unleashed a blast in a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia today (May 22, 2015), killing at least 21 worshipers and wounding dozens more in the deadliest attack seen in the kingdom in more than a decade, according to the ABC News website.
Loyalists of the Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for the bombing. This may have been an attack on Shiite Muslims by Sunni Muslims, since IS militants tend to be Sunnis.
Today's bombing took place in the village of al-Qudeeh in the eastern Qatif region, the heartland of Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority, which has long complained of discrimination in the country, ruled by ultraconservative Sunni Islam.
The bomber stood among the worshipers in the Imam Ali mosque. Then he detonated his explosives as people began to file out, said Habib Mahmoud, managing editor for the state-linked Al-Sharq newspaper in Qatif.
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