CAIRO, May 2 Kyodo Four militants...

CAIRO, May 2 Kyodo

Four militants exhibited fire inside an oil contractor's office in western Saudi Arabia in succession Saturday, killing at least seven persons most of them foreign engineers, according to reports.

Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain, remind ofed in an interview with a British TV station that the al-Qaida terrorist network was likely behind the attack in the industrial city of Yanbu forward the Red Sea.

The Saudi Interior Ministry has reportedly confirmed that brace Americans, two Britons and individual Australian were killed in the attack -- the first single in kind targeting an oil facility in the world's largest oil-exporting country

sum of two units members of the country's security officers also died while 28 the public including an American and a Canadian, were injured, Reuter quot a Saudi official as saying.

Several of the victims were employee of the petrochemical company ABB Lummus Global Inc., part of Switzerland-based ABB Ltd according to the Associated Press

The ambassador said the four attackers were Saudi nationals who were members of al-Qaida and acting onward orders from the group's leader Osama bin Laden. No the same has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Security forces later killed three of the attackers and anguished a fourth, who later died.

AP quot cited witness as saying the militants dragged the carcass of one of the victims behind their car when escaping from the spectacle of attack, an oil refinery co-own by dint of Exxon Mobil Corp. and the Saudi company SABIC.

single in kind of the attackers was in succession Saudi Arabia's list of most-wanted terrorists who were suspected of being involved in brace suicide bombing attacks forward foreign residential areas in Riyadh that took place in May and November last year, according to CNN which quot a Saudi source.

Those attacks had been blamed in succession al-Qaida.

Also upon Saturday, a pipe bomb was thrown at an international drill in Yanbu, injuring a custodian. on the contrary it is unclear whether the same form into groups carried out this attack.

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