Pakistani worker in Saudi Arabia shot dead by armed men
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Gunmen killed a Saudi child and a Pakistani man during an attack on workers at a building project in restive eastern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the interior ministry said on Friday.
The gunmen tried to stop redevelopment work in the old quarter of the town of Awamiya, where authorities say Shi'ite militants are hiding, said an interior ministry spokesman quoted by state news agency SPA.
They fired at security personnel and passersby, killing a two-year-old Saudi child and a Pakistani national and wounding ten others including six Saudis, he said.
"Workers were shot at by terrorist elements from the neighborhood to obstruct the project and protect abandoned houses used to ... kidnap citizens," said SPA.
