Several injured in explosion at Saudi Armistice Day event

France condemns cowardly attack' at Jeddah ceremony for foreign diplomatic staff

Several people have been wounded in an explosion in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah during a ceremony to commemorate the end of the first world war attended by staff from foreign diplomatic missions, officials have said.

The embassies involved condemn this cowardly attack, which is wholly unjustified," the French foreign ministry said. They call on the Saudi authorities to shed as much light as they can on this attack, and to identify and hunt down the perpetrators."