The worker, identified as Sultan, said that he noticed a vehicle following him.

When he stopped at a restaurant, two people got out of the car, approached him and threatened to kill him. He said that he tried to talk to them but they did not listen and one of them shot at him, missing his target.

"I did not know who they were and why they were attacking me. When I got out of my car and confronted them, one of them returned to his car, took his gun and aimed it at me,” said Sultan.

“He fired his gun, but he missed. A number of people managed to seize the gun from the shooter, but the two escaped before police arrived. I did succeed in writing down the number plate. I was slightly injured from the attack," said Sultan.

Police are still searching for the attackers.

This attack is similar to other incidents where Saher employees and their cars have been attacked.

In a recent incident in Buraidah, two Saudis in a pickup truck pulled up next to a Saher vehicle and threw a metal bar at it, smashing the window. The driver suffered minor injuries.

Last year a youth threw an iron bar at a Saher car also in Buraidah while driving at high speed. The rod broke the windshield, and damaged cameras and other equipment.

There is a video clip circulating on the Internet and mobile phones that showed a Saher car pulling over on a main road. A number of Saudi teenagers then started attacking the vehicle and throwing rocks at it.

The driver was left with no option but to escape from the spot before the attacks escalated.

In Makkah, a Saher vehicle was attacked when five men, three of them dressed in military uniform, assaulted two operators inside.

In March an unknown thief stole a Saher camera from a vehicle stationed at Jeddah’s Prince Miteb (Arbaeen) Street. The theft occurred when the vehicle's driver and operators went to the mosque for Asr prayer. The equipment inside the car was valued at an estimated SR500,000.

In Madinah, a young Saudi bitter after having been fined numerous times stood by the city’s Prince Naif Street waving a stick at passing motorists to warn them that a Saher vehicle was parked ahead.