RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a mosque in southern Saudi Arabia Monday, killing one person and wounding several others, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry.
The blast went off shortly after nightfall in Najran, near the border with Yemen. It was the latest in a series of bombings that have targeted mosques in the oil-producing kingdom in recent months. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said several victims were being treated in hospitals.
Najran is the capital of a border region of the same name that is home to a large concentration of the Sunni-ruled kingdom's Ismaili Shiite minority.
Suspicion is likely to fall on the Islamic State group. It considers Shiites to be heretics and seeks to weaken the ruling Al-Saud family's custodianship of Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina. The group's two Saudi affiliates have claimed three significant bombings, targeting mosques in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait since May.
The most recent was in August, when a bomber blew himself up at a mosque inside a police compound in Abha, some 350 miles south of Mecca. That blast killed 15, many of them members of a counterterrorism unit whose tasks include protecting the hajj pilgrimage. It was the country's deadliest attack on security forces in years.
Earlier this month, a previously unheard of Islamic State branch calling itself Bahrain Province claimed responsibility for a shooting attack targeting Shiite worshippers in eastern Saudi Arabia that killed five. State TV said that attacker wore an explosives belt but was shot before he could detonate the explosives.
As it tries to contain the Islamic State, Saudi Arabia is also leading a coalition of countries fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen who have taken over the capital and other parts of the country.