Baku. Rufat Ahmadzada – APA. Five people were killed and nine injured in a shooting on Monday night in a mostly Shia neighborhood of eastern Saudi Arabia, police said, as the area prepared to observe Ashura, APA reports quoting SPA news agency.
The three assailants fired machine guns and pistols on a crowd leaving a building in the village of al Dalwah in the al Ahsa district of Eastern Province, a police spokesperson cited by the official SPA news agency said.
The spokesperson did not specify what the building was or what motive the gunmen might have had.
But in postings on social networking sites, residents said that the crowd had been leaving a Shia place of worship on the eve of Ashura.
Al Ahsa is one of the two main centers of minority Shias in Saudi Arabia, along with the district of Qatif.
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