- RIYADH: A border guard officer died during a gun battle with a group of foreigners who tried to enter the Kingdom illegally through Dhahran Al-Janoub, a town in Asir province in the country's southern border with Yemen.
“When the border guards tried to stop the group, members opened fire at the officers,” said Lt. Col. Salim Al-Sulami, spokesman of the department. He said police arrested one of the intruders while the rest ran away into the mountains.
He identified the officer who died in the incident as Ghazi bin Awad Al-Qahtani. Maj. Gen. Zamim Al-Suwat, director general of the border guards, conveyed the condolences of Prince Naif, second deputy premier and minister of interior, to the officer’s bereaved family.