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A suicide bomber wounded two policemen at a checkpoint near a high-security prison in the Saudi capital Riyadh in an attack claimed by "ISIL" Takfiri group.

The group said that the bomber, identified by Saudi authorities as Abdullah al-Rashid, 19, had also killed his uncle, a colonel in the interior ministry, before blowing himself up, the SITE Intelligence monitoring group said.

"ISIL's" branch in Najd, the central region of Saudi Arabia, said on its Twitter account that Thursday's attack was a message to Takfiris held in Riyadh's al-Hair prison that they had not been forgotten.

"Let the Muslim captives in Al-Hair and everywhere know that we will not relent or tire until we release them from imprisonment, with permission from Allah," SITE quoted the tweet as saying.

Furthermore, "ISIL" named the slain colonel as Rashid Ibrahim al-Sufyan and said that Rashid had machine-gunned him in his own home.

According to the interior ministry's statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, the wounded policemen were in a "stable condition" in hospital.

The Takfiri group had expanded its operations into Saudi Arabia and neighboring Kuwait and Yemen this year with a string of deadly attacks.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team