DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has asked its citizens to leave Lebanon due to the risk of political violence in the country, where twin suicide bombings near Iran`s embassy in Beirut killed 25 people this week.

Riyadh has issued several similar calls in the past two years as the civil war in Syria has inflamed political and sectarian tension in neighbouring Lebanon.

‘Saudi ambassador Ali Awadh al-Asseiri said on Thursday that the embassy urged Saudi nationals to leave Lebanon, considering the alarming security situation,’ the Lebanese National News Agency reported, citing a phone call with Asseiri.

Some Shia commentators in Lebanon have accused Sunni Saudi Arabia of being behind Tuesday’s blasts near the embassy of its main Middle East rival, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 2006 HRS, NOV 20, 2013
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