A police officer was wounded during an encounter with a liquor dealer of African descent in the Al-Mandaq area.

Spokesman for Al-Baha police Col. Saad Tarrad said that a police team, acting on a tip-off, raided the site of the brewery.

Tarrad said the man resisted arrest and injured an officer while trying to flee. Police shot and injured him before his arrest. The man was sent to hospital for treatment.