Several wounded in Remembrance Day bomb attack at Saudi cemetery

Several people have been wounded in a bomb attack at a Remembrance Day ceremony attended by foreign diplomats in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

The embassies of France, Greece, Italy, the UK and the US said an improvised explosive device blew up at a cemetery for non-Muslims on Wednesday morning.

A joint statement strongly condemned the "cowardly attack".

Saudi authorities confirmed that a Greek consulate employee and a Saudi security officer had been hurt.

The BBC understands one British person suffered minor injuries.

The government of Mecca province described the attack on the ceremony as "cowardly" and said security forces had launched an investigation.

Last month, a guard at the French consulate in Jeddah was stabbed and injured by a Saudi man on the same day that three people were killed in a knife attack in the French city of Nice that was blamed on an "Islamist terrorist".