Smoke billowing from the US consulate in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah. Gunmen suspected of links to Al-Qaeda stormed the consulate, triggering a bloody three-hour siege and a shootout that left five staff and three attackers dead. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

Saudi security forces stand outside the US consulate in Jeddah. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

Saudi Prince of Mecca, Abdul Majid bin Abdel Aziz, left, visits a wounded Yemeni worker Mowaffaq Ahmed at the King Fahd hospital in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia Monday, Dec. 6, 2004 following a terrorist attack which killed at least 12 people. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

    MANILA, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- A Filipino was killed when the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was attacked, the Department ofForeign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday.

    Quoting a report from the Philippine embassy in Riyadh, the DFAtold the TV GMA that the victim, identified as Romeo de la Rosa, was from Tondo, Manila.

    But the department did not disclose how he was killed or other details.

    Earlier report said that Islamic militants stormed the US consulate in Jeddah in a brazen raid on Monday, killing 12 people.     

    It was the first major militant assault in Saudi Arabia since May and the first against a Western diplomatic mission.

    In Iraq, two other Filipino overseas workers were injured in separate mortar attacks on US camps in Nov. 22 and Dec. 1, the DFAsaid Monday.

    The Philippine government is considering deploying personnel atthe border Iraq shares with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, and Turkey to prevent overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from entering the war-torn country, the DFA said.

    Meanwhile, the Philippine embassy in Baghdad has been instructed to locate Filipinos arriving in Iraq and investigate Philippine-based recruitment agencies that have violated the ban on deploying OFWs to Iraq.

    The DFA also directed the Bureau of Immigration to strictly monitor ports in the southern island of Mindanao that might be used as a backdoor transit point to Iraq. Enditem