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| 4 Dead in Police Operation in Saudi Village |
| 2014-12-21 |
| [AnNahar] Saudi police potted four "terrorists" Saturday in a Shiite village in an operation to arrest the people who rubbed out a soldier there last weekend, the front man for the interior ministry said. During a shootout in Adamiya, "four terrorists, including the primary suspect in the shooting of soldier Abdelaziz bin Ahmed al-Assiri, were killed," the front man was quoted by the official SPA news agency as saying in a statement. One policeman was maimed. Assiri died Sunday when officers came under fire from farms near Awamiya. The village, just west of Dammam city on the Gulf coast, has witnessed festivities between security forces of the Sunni-dominated kingdom and protesters from the minority Shiite community. In February, a firefight in Awamiya left two coppers and two suspects dead. Other shootings have occurred there in subsequent months. Most Saudi Shiites live in the oil-rich east, and many complain of marginalisation. Since 2011, protests and sporadic attacks on security forces have occurred in Shiite areas, leaving around 20 Shiite youth dead. Activists say several death sentences have also been handed down by courts in the kingdom since the demonstrations began. |
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