Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The police shot dead a wanted suspected militant early on Tuesday in an exchange of fire in which he killed his father and wounded two policemen, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by Saudi Press Agency (SPA). “At 1 a.m. on Tuesday (2300 GMT on Monday), while security men were taking measures to apprehend a fugitive, accompanied by the man's father, he left his house and fired with an automatic weapon, killing his father and wounding two security men,” the statement said. The security forces fired back, killing the man, according to the statement, which said that the authorities were investigating the incident but gave no further details. Earlier this month, in the southwestern city of Taif, a policeman was gunned down during a raid in which three people were arrested and flags of Daesh (the so-called IS) extremists found, police said earlier. Daesh has been blamed for killing other Saudi policemen and has claimed deadly bombings of mosques in the Kingdom and neighboring Kuwait and Yemen. Saudi Arabia released a list of 16 men suspected of involvement in a pair of May suicide bombings at mosques in the Eastern Province. Saudi authorities have detained hundreds of suspected militants over the past year, including people who planned attacks inside the country and others who sought to travel to Iraq, Syria, Yemen or Afghanistan to fight.
