Gunmen Kill Six at Saudi Oil Facility

May 2, 1:09 AM (ET)

By ADNAN MALIK

(AP) A vehicle driven by a Pakistani man hit during a shootout in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, wounding the...
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YANBU, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Suspected militants sprayed gunfire inside an oil contractor's Saudi office Saturday, killing at least six people - including two Americans and three other Westerners - and wounding dozens. Police killed four gunmen in a shootout after a car chase in which the attackers reportedly dragged the naked body of one victim behind their getaway car.

One of the attackers killed was reported to be on the Saudi kingdom's list of most-wanted terrorists, many of them suspects in last year's suicide attacks on foreign housing compounds in the capital, Riyadh. The two attacks were blamed on al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden's terror network.

Three of the gunmen worked at the office of ABB-Lummus in the industrial city of Yanbu, 220 miles north of the Red Sea city of Jiddah. Many foreigners are employed by oil refineries and petrochemical plants in the region.

The three gunmen used their key cards to enter the building and sneak another attacker through an emergency gate, according to an Interior Ministry source quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency.


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