5 killed in Saudi shooting on Shia festival--police | Inquirer News

5 killed in Saudi shooting on Shia festival–police

/ 02:50 PM November 04, 2014

RIYADH–Five people were killed and nine injured in a shooting on Monday night in a mostly Shia neighborhood of eastern Saudi Arabia, police said, as the area prepared to celebrate the Shia festival of Ashura.

“Three masked people fired with machine guns and pistols” as “a group of citizens left a site in the village of Al-Dalwa” in the region of Al-Ihsa, said a police spokesman.

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