Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Security forces have arrested a man who figured on a list of 23 wanted people for causing trouble in Al-Qatif governorate. A police squad arrested Hussein Hasan Ali Al-Rabie in the village of AlAwamiyah late on Sunday, Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki was quoted by Saudi Press Agency (SPA) as saying. Al-Rabie was wounded in a gunfire exchange with security forces who caught him “while selling a large amount of drugs in Al-Awamiya,” the spokesman said. Maj. Gen. Al-Turki did not say if police arrested others involved in buying the drugs, but he said that a policeman was wounded in the clash. Al-Rabie was involved in Aug. 28 firing incident that claimed the life of a citizen and caused injuries to another. Al-Rabie was fourth on a list of 23 wanted people announced by the Interior Ministry earlier this year. His arrest reduces the number of those remaining at large to 13, after five others were arrested. Four others turned themselves in when the list was announced in January and were later released. The ministry had said those wanted were responsible for the trouble that hit Al-Qatif in the Eastern Province, last year. The wanted men are accused mainly of “possessing illegal arms and opening fire on the public and police, in addition to using innocent people as shields,” the Interior Ministry had said at the time.
