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Saudi police kill three ‘terrorists’

By AFP
July 22, 2017

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia´s police have shot dead three men wanted for “terrorist” attacks in the country´s east, the interior ministry said on Friday.

The men -- two Saudis and a Bahraini -- were killed in an exchange of gunfire with police in the city of Saihat, the ministry said. Police seized three machine guns, a pistol, ammunition and more than 10 kilos of explosives, reported a ministry spokesman.

He said the men were wanted for their involvement in deadly attacks against the police, as well as an attack on a vehicle used to transport cash, abductions and weapons trafficking.