Attack on Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia kills 2

 

 Two gunmen wearing suicide bomb belts attacked a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, an assault that killed at least two people and wounded seven, authorities said.

The attack struck the Imam Reza Mosque in the neighborhood of Mehasin, an area popular with Shiite workers of the state-run Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world's largest oil-producing firm.

One attacker detonated his explosives, while the other opened fire, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency. The other attacker was stopped from blowing himself up, it said.
The Interior Ministry said the attack killed two. Security officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the attack before the announcement, said three were killed. The discrepancy could not be immediately reconciled