Two Saudi security officers shot dead by gunmen in Dammam

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Gunmen shot dead two Saudi security officers in the eastern city of Dammam on Tuesday, Saudi-owned Arabiya TV reported.

Pictures posted on Arabiya's website showed police cars with flashing lights crowding the crime scene, a residential street.

"Two security men were killed... 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 shot dead in the city in September.

There have been shootings of security forces in the Eastern Province in the past by militants angry at what they say is repression of their minority community in the Wahhabi-ruled country.

The Saudi government, however, has often blamed the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh for the attacks.

The ideology behind Daesh reign of terror is rooted in Saudi Arabia where Wahhabism is freely preached and tolerated by the kingdom's rulers.

Various terrorist groups operating in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere in the world practice Wahhabism, a radical strand of ideology preached by government-sanctioned Saudi clerics.



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