Policeman Shot Dead in Saudi Capital

The official Saudi news agency SPA said that a policeman was shot dead on Friday evening in a southern district of the capital of Riyadh. The agency said that policeman Maged al-Ghamdy was patrolling the area at 7:30 p.m. local time when he was shot from an unidentified car. Last month, two policeman were also shot dead from a car in eastern Riyadh and Saudi security forces are currently on a heightened state of alert because of the Saudi-led campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Some Saudi Shi'ites have also carried out gun and petrol bomb attacks on police in the Qatif district of Eastern Province, in retaliation for what local activists describe as systematic discrimination against members of their sect, which Riyadh denies.