Alwaght- Two Saudi policemen were injured in a bomb blast in the restive eastern Saudi Arabia which has been seen clashes between residents and security.
An explosive device detonated at a security patrol on Monday in Al-Awamiyah twon in the Qatif province, the official SPA news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying. Reports indicate the improvised explosive device went off outside the old quarter of Al-Awamiyah, known as al-Mosara.
On May 16, a Saudi soldier was killed and another five were injured when their patrol came under a rocket attack in Qatif.
Days before the incident, Saudi security forces shot dead a Saudi child and a Pakistani man during an attack on workers at a building project in Awamiyah.
Saudi forces started their brutal attack on Awamiyah village 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 Al 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.
