Alwaght- A Saudi army commando has been killed and three others injured in the kingdom’s restive eastern region, where the Riyadh regime is suppressing Shiite Muslim population.
The attack occurred on Thursday morning in the oil-rich and Shiite-populated Qatif region in Eastern Province, Saudi news site Sabq reported.
The incident came a day after another Saudi regime trooper was killed and three others were wounded Tuesday in a bomb attack in Qatif at the kingdom’s eastern region.
The Interior Ministry said the attack occurred in Awamiyah’s al-Masora neighborhood in Qatif in the eastern province of the kingdom.
On June 11, a senior Saudi policeman was killed and two members of the security forces were injured when an explosive device blew up beside their patrol vehicle in the same area, located some 390 kilometers northeast of the capital Riyadh.
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.
