Security spokesman at the Ministry of Interior Major General Mansour Alturki said that at eleven o'clock on the evening of Friday, the fifteenth of the month of Ramadan, one of the security patrols came under heavy fire from four of armed rioters riding motorcyclists while stopping at one of the intersections on Ohod Street in Qatif province, resulting in the martyrdom of First Class Private Hosein Ali Zabani and the wounding of First Class Private Saad Miteb Mohammad Al Shammari who was taken to hospital for treatment. Major General Alturki said that security patrols rushed to the scene and chased a number of armed rioters riding motorcyclists and exchanged fire with them and arrested four of them. Major General Alturki said that one of them was wounded and died while being taken to hospital. The security agencies received a communication from Qatif Central hospital on the arrival of a person with bullet wound. He turned out to be one of armed rioters involved in the shooting on the security men, Major General Alturki said. The incident is still under security follow-up, Major General Alturki said.
