IS claims Riyadh suicide bombing

A suicide bomber wounded two policemen at a checkpoint near a high-security prison in the Saudi capital of Riyadh in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

The group said that the bomber, identified by Saudi authorities as Abdullah al-Rashid, 19, had also killed his uncle, a colonel in the Interior Ministry, before blowing himself up, the SITE Intelligence monitoring group said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the car bomb attack, according to a statement from his spokesperson.