DAKAR, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- A suicide bomber detonated a bomb on Saturday near the French embassy in Mauritania capital Nouakchott, killing the suicide bomber himself and wounding three other people, police said.

    Police said the bomb exploded at a location, about 100 meters from the French embassy.

    The identity of the suicide bomber, about at the age of 25, was unknown so far, police said.

    police said those injured in the attack had been rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

    Mauritania has been hit for several times by terrorist attacks since 2006 but the suicide bomb attack was the first of its kind in the country.