Saudi Arabia: armed man set fire in a Mc Donald's restaurant

The Saudi news agency said yesterday that an unidentified person set fire yesterday in a McDonald's restaurant which is close to an American military base in Saudi Arabia and then fled away.

The fire resulted only in material damages inflected in the restaurant.

The agency quoted the police chief in Riyadh as saying that the authorities are searching for the suspected man who entered the restaurant which is situated in al-Kharj province ( 80 Km to the south of Riyadh ) and threatened one of the employees with his weapons. Al-Kharj province, however includes a military base for the American soldiers.