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| A US national was shot dead and another wounded in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Tuesday, police said, in what appeared to be the first killing of a westerner in years in a gun attack in the kingdom. | A US national was shot dead and another wounded in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Tuesday, police said, in what appeared to be the first killing of a westerner in years in a gun attack in the kingdom. |
| Police later shot and wounded an assailant and then arrested him, said the brief statement, carried by SPA, the state media agency. | Police later shot and wounded an assailant and then arrested him, said the brief statement, carried by SPA, the state media agency. |
| “The attack resulted in the killing of one person and the wounding of another and it turned out they were of American citizenship,” it said. | “The attack resulted in the killing of one person and the wounding of another and it turned out they were of American citizenship,” it said. |
| Police said the attack happened when the two stopped their vehicle at a filling station in an eastern district of the capital. | Police said the attack happened when the two stopped their vehicle at a filling station in an eastern district of the capital. |
| The last reported killings of westerners by armed assailants in Saudi Arabia happened in 2007 when three French nationals were shot dead while camping in the north-west of the country. | The last reported killings of westerners by armed assailants in Saudi Arabia happened in 2007 when three French nationals were shot dead while camping in the north-west of the country. |
| The motive behind the fatal shooting is not yet known and an investigation is under way, the interior ministry spokesman, Major General Mansour Turki, said. | |
| The assailant, who was wounded in the attack and then detained, is a Saudi national who was born in the United States, he told Reuters. He added that a third US national in a separate vehicle witnessed the attack. | The assailant, who was wounded in the attack and then detained, is a Saudi national who was born in the United States, he told Reuters. He added that a third US national in a separate vehicle witnessed the attack. |