According to a press release by the Saudi Press Agency, the official news agency of Saudi Arabia, "Security spokesman of the Interior Ministry said in a statement that before the prayers of Maghrib in Madinah on Monday 09/29/1437 AH, security men suspected a person while he was heading to the Prophet's Mosque through a vacant lot of land used as a parking space for visitors' cars.
[9][10] Saudi Arabia's interior ministry claimed that a man named Abdullah Gulzar Khan carried out the bombing near the U.S. consulate, located in Jeddah.
According to the ministry, Khan had been living in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for 12 years working as an immigrant driver.
A 26-year-old Saudi man, Naer Moslem Hammad Al Balawi, who had a "history of drug use", was identified as the perpetrator of the Medina attack.
[12] The apparent attempt to target the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, the burial place of Muhammad and considered the second holiest site in Islam, brought condemnation from both Sunni and Shia religious leaders worldwide, and even other extremist groups such as Hezbollah and the Taliban.