Tuesday 14 October 2014

American Shot Dead in Saudi Capital, Another Wounded

An unidentified gunman shot dead an American and wounded another in the Saudi capital on Tuesday when he opened fire on their vehicle, police said.

Security forces arrested the assailant following the afternoon attack at a petrol station in eastern Riyadh, a police spokesman said in a statement carried by the SPA state news agency.


Source: AFP	14-10-2014 - 17:47 Last updated 14-10-2014 - 17:47

American shot dead in Saudi capital

Published Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Updated at 5:50 pm (GMT +3): An unidentified gunman shot dead an American and wounded another in the Saudi capital on Tuesday when he opened fire on their vehicle, police said.

"The attack resulted in the killing of one person and wounding another and it turned out they were of American citizenship," it said.

The motive behind the fatal shooting is not yet known and an investigation is under way, Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said.

The assailant, who was wounded in the attack and then detained, is a Saudi national who was born in the United States, he told Reuters. He added that a third US national in a separate vehicle witnessed the attack.

Following the attack near King Fahd sports stadium, a shootout ensued between the gunman and the security forces, a police spokesman said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

In January, a Saudi court sentenced to death an Al-Qaeda militant and jailed 10 others over a May 2004 attack that killed six Westerners and a policeman.

The defendants, seven of whom are brothers, were convicted of aiding assailants who attacked a US company in the northwestern port town of Yanbu, killing two Americans, two Britons, an Australian and a Canadian, as well as a Saudi.

(AFP, Reuters)