Death toll in Saudi bomb blast reaches 17

Updated: 16:00, Monday, 10 November 2003

The number of people killed in Saturday night's terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia has risen to seventeen. The dead include five children.

Riyadh Death toll rises to 17 Riyadh Death toll rises to 17

More than 100 others were wounded when gunmen stormed a residential compound in the capital, Riyadh, and set off a car bomb.

Their victims were mostly foreign workers from other Arab nations.

The Saudi authorities are blaming al-Qaeda.

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