A brother and sister from Denholme have told of the terrifying moment they were caught up in the suicide bomb attacks in Saudi Arabia.

Soraya Faris and Brian Taylor, pictured, who are teachers, were in their apartments 300 metres from the centre of the blast in Riyadh.

Mr Taylor, 37, who used to teach at Oakbank School, Keighley, was cooking a late meal when he heard gunfire.

"I lay flat on the kitchen floor and then the gunshots stopped. I wasn't sure what to do but 20 seconds later there was a huge explosion that shook the building," he said.

"The doors flew open and the windows all went through and I could hear people screaming."

His 38-year-old sister, who lives next door to him in Denton Row, Denholme, had been woken and pulled the duvet over her head for protection.

"I heard glass shattering and the gunfire stopped and them there was an almighty explosion," she said.

"I went to my brother in the next door room and there were people in the corridors with nightclothes covered in blood from flying glass."

The attack on the compound on Monday involved a car packed with explosives, and security guards fought a gun battle with the terrorists to try to stop them.

The strikes killed 34 people, including two Britons, and were linked with the al Qaida terror network.

Miss Faris decided to go to Saudi with her brother after a ten-year career teaching at schools in Queensbury, Manningham and Great Horton. They were advised by the British Embassy to return home. Parts of the 1,000-pupil British school in the compound where they worked were damaged.

American officials are now warning the bombings could be followed by more attacks on Westerners and the FBI is investigating.

"The Al Hamra compound was a beautiful place and now it is a pile of rubble and burned out cars I was devastated. I cried most of the day when we got back," she said.

Mr Taylor said it was too early to decide if they would return.