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Child Killed, Five Wounded in Saudi Bomb Blast

Published July 27th, 2000 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

A blast from a bomb placed next to a park in a town in western Saudi Arabia Wednesday killed one child and wounded five others, police said. 

The device, hidden in a garbage bin in a working class district of Bahra, went off as a group of children were playing in the park, police chief Saleh bin Ibrahim al-Aliyan said, quoted by the SPA news agency. 

He did not give details of the bomb, but said that an investigation was underway - JEDDAH (AFP) 

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