Gunmen shot dead two Saudi security officers in the eastern city of Dammam on Tuesday, Al Arabiya TV reported.
Pictures posted on Al Arabiya’s website showed police cars with flashing lights crowding the crime scene in a residential street.
“Two security men were martyred ... three unidentified gunmen opened fire on the two security men as they returned from work in Dammam,” the channel said, adding that the officers were driving a private car.
Two other policemen were killed in the city in September.
There have been shootings of security forces in the Eastern Province in the past by Shiite militants angry at what they say is repression of their community.
* Reuters
