Saudi Arabia’s police have shot dead three men wanted for terrorist attacks in the country’s Shiite-majority east, the interior ministry of the Sunni-ruled kingdom said on Friday.
The men — two Saudis and a Bahraini — were killed in an exchange of gunfire with police in the city of Saihat in the district of Qatif. Police seized three machine guns, a pistol, ammunition and more than 10 kilos of explosives.
Ministry spokesman said the men were wanted for their involvement in deadly attacks against the police, as well as an attack on a vehicle used to transport cash, abductions and weapons trafficking.