Gunmen shot dead at least five people in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province
on Tuesday in an attack on Shia Muslims during one of their most important
religious festivals, the state news agency SPA reported.
Nine people were wounded by the unidentified attackers late on Monday
night in al-Dalwah village in al-Ahsa district, a police spokesman was quoted
as saying. "As a group of citizens was leaving a building three masked men
opened fire at them with machine guns and pistols," the spokesman said,
according to SPA, adding that the incident was under investigation. It gave no
further details.
Al-Ahsa is one of the main centres of minority Shia Muslims in
Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, who are now marking Ashura, the holy day
commemorating the death of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)'s grandson Imam Hussein with
public ceremonies and processions.
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