One killed in Saudi police car bomb explosion

A Saudi national has been killed after a booby-trapped police vehicle exploded in the kingdom’s central city of al-Dalam, local media report.

The Saudi Press Agency quoted a Ministry of Interior spokesman as saying on Sunday that the police car was detonated late Saturday in al-Dalam when it was parked near a police station.

A Saudi national was killed in the incident and two other vehicles were damaged due to the explosion.

The Ministry of Interior reportedly launched an investigation into the incident.

Al-Dalam is located some 100km southeast of the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

The ISIL Takfiri terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on social media websites. The group said that one of its militants detonated two booby traps at a police station and burnt three police cars.

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