Saudi cop gunned down in Shiite district of Qatif
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RIYADH: (APP) Gunmen have shot dead a Saudi policeman in the kingdom's east where most minority Shiites live, police said on Wednesday.
The drive-by attack happened early on Tuesday in Qatif, a Shiite-dominated district on the Gulf coast.
Four masked men opened fire, wounding the officer who died on the way to hospital, provincial police said in a statement.
"The police building and a patrol car were damaged," said the statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
It was the fourth fatal shooting of a policeman in Qatif since January.
