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Grenade kills Saudi policeman in Shia town
[Al Ahram] A Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n police officer was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade on Tuesday in a Shia town, the interior ministry said, as deadly fighting escalated. A member of the special police emergency forces died when "a rocket-propelled grenade (was) launched from inside the neighbourhood" and hit his patrol unit in the Almosara area of Awamiya, the ministry said in a statement. "Five others were maimed and taken to hospital," it said. Awamiya is a town of 30,000 in Qatif district of Eastern Province, where most of the Sunni-ruled kingdom's shias live. The town, in a region where Shias have long complained of marginalisation, has been the scene of repeated security incidents. The police officer is at least the third person killed in the Gulf coast town of Awamiya since Wednesday. The unrest centres on Awamiya's old Almosara district, which is the site of a redevelopment project. "It's really war," said an area resident who reported his home has been shaken by kabooms in the past two days. On Friday the ministry said a two-year-old boy and a Pak died when gunnies from within Almosara opened fire on passersby, security officers and workers on the project. Posted by: Fred 2017-05-17 |
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