At least one Saudi police officer sustained injuries when unidentified armed men fired shots at a security patrol in the kingdom’s western coastal city of Jeddah.
The Saudi Interior Ministry, in a statement published on its Twitter account on Monday, said the shooting took place the previous night in the Red Sea city, located 955 kilometers (593 miles) southwest of the capital, Riyadh, and that the assailants fled in their car.
An investigation is underway to hunt down the attackers, the statement added.
A Saudi policeman was killed and two others injured in an attack in the kingdom’s Eastern Province on July 28.
An unnamed spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry said the incident happened in the al-Jesh village of Qatif region. Two people were later arrested in connection with the attack.
On July 3, a police officer was killed in a raid targeting suspected Daesh militants in Saudi Arabia’s western and most populous province of Mecca.
The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement that the security forces “arrested three suspects, confiscated Daesh flags, silencers and personal laptops” during the operation in the city of Taif, located 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of the holy city of Mecca.
Previously, two Saudi policemen, identified as Thamer Amran al-Mutairi and Abdulmohsen Khalaf al-Mutairi, were killed in an April 8 drive-by shooting as they were patrolling an eastern district of the capital.
