A number of people were wounded Wednesday in an explosive device attack at a non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah, in western Saudi Arabia, during a ceremony commemorating the armistice agreement on November 11, 1918, the French Foreign Ministry announced.

"The ceremony that was taking place on the anniversary of the end of the First World War in a cemetery for non-Muslims in Jeddah, in which a number of consuls, including the French consul, was taking part," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The Foreign Ministry condemned "resolutely unjustified cowardly action."

The Greek Foreign Ministry, according to Reuters, said that four were injured and one of the injured was Greek.