Security Building in Saudi Capital Is Destroyed by Bombs

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/21/international/middleeast/21CND-SAUD.html?pagewanted=print&position=

April 21, 2004

Security Building in Saudi Capital Is Destroyed by Bombs
By TERENCE NEILAN

suicide car bomber blew off the front of a security office building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, today, witnesses told Reuters and a local English-language newspaper.

At least 10 people were killed, the newspaper and Reuters said, citing witnesses. The death toll was expected to rise.

Dozens were reported wounded in what a Saudi Interior Ministry official described as a "terrorist attack."

The official, who was not identified, told Reuters that a car packed with explosives blew up in Al Murabaa district.

Ambulances rushed to the scene and local residents said they saw many bodies being loaded into them.

Smoke billowed from damaged buildings in the area, which also houses the state television offices and the Interior Ministry, Reuters reported.

The attack happened on the second day of a four-day international conference on terrorism, which opened in Riyadh with a call for peace and tolerance, the newspaper, The Saudi Gazette, reported on Tuesday.

Terrorist activity in the Riyadh region in recent days has left six security officers and one militant dead, the newspaper said.

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