A suicide bomber blew himself up near the American consulate in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, early Monday morning, injuring two people, the Saudi government said in a statement to its official news agency.

The blast happened shortly before 3 a.m. local time near the parking lot of a hospital across the street from the consulate, according to an unnamed Interior Ministry spokesman who spoke to the Saudi Press Agency. He said two police officers had been treated at the hospital for minor injuries.

A grisly streak of large-scale attacks by jihadists linked to the Islamic State has killed more than 200 people in three countries in the past week. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing in Jidda, a port city on the Red Sea.