A policeman was shot dead by masked gunmen in the Qatif district in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province on Wednesday, state news agency SPA said, the latest in a string of attacks there this year.
Four assailants opened fire on a police station before dawn, SPA reported.
Qatif, which is both a city and the name of a district, is home to a Shiite minority in the kingdom.
Qatif was one of three Saudi cities targeted in coordinated bomb attacks on July 4. A suicide bomber struck near a Shiite mosque killing himself and two others.
The Saudi government said ISIL was likely behind the attacks.
There have also been shootings of security forces by Shiite militants angry at what they say is repression of their community.
* Reuters
