AFP/Riyadh
Two Saudi police officers were wounded in a drive-by shooting in Riyadh on Sunday, a spokesman said, days after the kingdom strengthened security measures as it leads air strikes on Yemen.
“A security patrol was carrying out its duties in Riyadh when it came under fire from an unknown vehicle” in an attack that “left two policemen wounded”, the spokesman said in a statement published on the official SPA news agency.
The two were admitted to hospital and “their health situation is stable”, the statement said. Authorities are investigating the incident, it added.
The attack comes just days after Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minister Prince Mohamed bin Nayef ordered that security measures be strengthened along borders and across the kingdom, as Riyadh leads air strikes against Iran-backed Shia rebels in Yemen.
Nayef on Thursday ordered the “strengthening of all security measures along the kingdom’s borders and at all public, oil and industrial facilities”, only hours after the start of the offensive in Yemen.
