An attack on a Saudi police patrol on Saturday wounded two officers in the Shiite-majority eastern province of Qatif, authorities said, in the third attack in the area in one week.
“The patrol was targeted by an explosive projectile when passing by a building under construction in the Al-Naserah district in Qatif,” the interior ministry said in a statement published on the official SPA news agency. Two policeman were wounded and transferred to nearby hospitals.
Authorities are treating the attack as a “terrorist crime,” the statement said. The attack occurred in the same area where a police corporal was killed in a bombing targeting a patrol on Thursday.