RIYADH // Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Saudi policeman in the capital Riyadh on Friday.
Gunmen in a car opened fire at a patrol in the south of the city, killing one of its members, said a spokesman for Riyadh police in a statement carried by the SPA state news agency.
It was the latest in a series of attacks on security forces in the kingdom which is part of a US-led coalition against ISIL extremists in Syria.
Two Saudi police officers were wounded in a drive-by shooting in Riyadh in late March, days after the kingdom started to lead an campaign of air strikes targeting Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen.
On March 22, the United States resumed consular services in Saudi Arabia following a week-long closure over unspecified “heightened security concerns”.
Saudi security forces also occasionally come under attack from opponents in the country’s Shiite-populated Eastern Province.
However, attacks on police in the capital are rare.
* Agence France-Presse