JEDDAH: Najran police spokesman Abdulrahman Al-Shamrani said that the head of General Department of Narcotics Control in Habona, Najran province, First Lt. Hussein Al-Qahtani, who was shot and killed late on Sunday in Najran, was coming from a neighboring province when he was shot near the border. “He was shot from behind and got hit under his left shoulder. He lost control of his car and therefore it flipped many times,” said Shamrani.
Qahtani was working in the town of Habona, 130 kilometers of Najran city, and got shot in the back during an operation against drug smugglers. He died shortly after arriving in hospital. The shooting is similar to the one that occurred close to the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Saturday in which an officer was killed and another injured while apprehending a Saudi man with drugs.
The officers stopped the suspect near the Saptco bus station and asked to see his identity card, suspecting he had illegal items in the bag he was carrying. The two officers found hashish and tried to arrest him. The man took out a handgun and fired.
Shamrani also said that a foreigner was arrested for embezzling SR32,430. He said that Al-Faisaliah police center received a call from one of the companies that its 45-year-old sales representative embezzled the money. The police had taken necessary steps to arrest the man and probe him.
