Mecca: one security officer assassinated

Unidentified men assassinated a senior security officer in Mecca. He had presided over the investigation department for the police in the city.

The spokesman for the Saudi ministry of the interior Lt. Gen. Mansour al-Turkey said that Lt. Mubarak Falah al-Sawat was killed on Saturday by bullets in front of his house in al-Shara' area in Mecca, noting that the "objectives and the criminals are not known."

Meantime, a security source explained that al-Sawat was presiding over the investigation department for the police in Mecca. Al-Arabia TV said that inspection points were installed on several exits of Mecca in order to arrest "gunmen that might be linked to the incident." The Saudi daily Okaz said on Sunday that "two veiled men, one carrying a machine gun and the second a pistol" carried out al-Swat assassination.