Two Saudi police officers killed in Riyadh shooting

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Wednesday 08 Apr 2015 - 23:45 Makkah mean time-19-6-1436 Riyadh (IINA) - Two Saudi Arabian policemen have been killed after a shooting in the country’s capital Riyadh, according to the Saudi Press Agency. The pair were shot in an eastern district of Riyadh while on patrol in their vehicle early on Wednesday, SPA reported citing an unnamed police spokesperson. The dead officers were named as Thamer Amran Al-Mutairi and Abdul Mohsen Khalaf Al-Mutairi. The authorities are carrying out an investigation into the shooting, the spokesman said. Last month two policemen were shot and injured in a similar attack in Riyadh, Reuters reported. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Qaeda have called on followers in the country in the past to attack targets including the authorities, non-Muslim residents and members of Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority. HA/IINA