Alwaght- One Saudi regime policeman was killed and three others were wounded Tuesday in a bomb attack in kingdom’s restive region of Qatif.
The Interior Ministry said the attack occurred in Awamiyah’s al-Masora neighborhood in Qatif in the eastern province of the kingdom.
The spokesman said the blast occurred at early morning Tuesday while a police patrol team was attacked by a projectile. The ministry’s spokesman also said security authorities had begun an investigation into the incident, but gave no further details regarding the incident.
Qatif, especially the al-Masora neighborhood, has witnessed many such attacks in recent months. Last month, a police officer was killed and other two were injured in a similar bomb blast when a police patrol was attacked in the neighborhood.
Saudi forces started their brutal attack on Awamiyah town on May 10, using helicopter gunships and heavy weapons. The Saudi regime says the aim of the raid is to allow ‘renovation’ of the historic al-Mosara neighborhood to make way for a planned a new project.
The "renovation" of the historic 400-year old Mosara neighborhood has been highly controversial. In April, the United Nations called on the Saudi regime to halt the project, warning that it threatened "the historical and cultural heritage of the town with irreparable harm".
Awamiyah, a town of 30,000 in the Shiite Muslim -majority Qatif district in the Eastern Saudi province, was the home of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a high ranking Shiite scholar who was unjustly hanged in January last year for demanding the legitimate rights of the region’s residents.
