Indian among Jeddah dead

Bashiruddin will be buried in Jeddah where his elder brother also lives.

Two Indians, Petero Antonio from Goa and Richard Simon from Chennai were injured in the attack. While Simon will undergo an operation, Antonio is still in the Intensive Care unit.

Meanwhile, Saudi authorities today named three of the gunmen slain in a shootout with security forces after a brazen attack on the US consulate in Jeddah but denied any of its national guardsmen were killed.

However, none of the three men identified were on a most-wanted list of suspected Al Qaeda sympathizers issued by authorities a year ago amid a wave of deadly attacks by islamic militants in the kingdom.

An interior ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency today named three of the dead as Fayez bin Awwad al-Jeheni, Eid bin Dakhilallah al-Jeheni and Hassan bin Hamed al-Hazmi.

8216;8216;The identity of the fourth, who is wounded, must be not be divulged for the sake of the public interest, and procedures are under way to establish the identity of the fifth person, who died in the incident,8217;8217; the statement said, adding that all four identified were Saudis.