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Police Name Suspect In Killing Of Four French Nationals
Riyahd, 1 March (AKI) - Saudi Arabian police have allegedly identified one of the people involved in Monday's killing of four French citizens near the Muslim holy city of Medina. The man, Wlalid Mutlaq al-Radadi, is a well known suspect whose name appears on a police list of 36 most wanted terrorists, according to a report by Saudi newspaper, al-Watan on Thursday. Police believe a group of three or four gunmen took part in Monday's attack in Buat, some 50 kilometres north of Medina. While the French government has not revealed the identities of those killed, news reports said that three men - two engineers working in Riyadh and the teacher at a French school in the capital - were killed instantly, while a fourth, the 17-year-old Muslim son of a French-Moroccan woman, died later in hospital from a bullet wound to his shoulder. The victims were among a group of French and Belgian citizens who had been visiting historic sites and camping in Saudi Arabias scenic northwestern desert for several days reports. The attack is one of the most serious on Westerners in Saudi Arabia since another French citizen was fatally shot in Jidda in September 2004. Accord to a police the attack took place when the suspects pulled up there car, a green Nissan Patrol vehicle alongside the vehicle the French were travelling in and sprayed it with machinge gun bullets. al-Watan reported. According to another Saudi newspaper, al-Okaz, one of the attackers first asked the group where they were from before opening fire. Posted by: Steve 2007-03-01 |
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