Riyadh: A Saudi teenager has died of wounds sustained four days ago in a police raid that killed a wanted Shiite man and a companion in oil-rich Eastern Province, relatives said on Saturday.
Saudi authorities informed the family of Hassan Zahiri, 16, that he succumbed to injuries, the relatives said, raising the death toll of the attack on a house in the Shiite village of Al Awamiya to three.
Security forces had tracked down Khalid Al Labad to a house in Al Awamiya, in the Qatif district, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. It said a gunbattle erupted when police attempted to arrest the man who figured on a list of 23 Shiites wanted in connection with unrest.
Labad and a comrade were shot dead, while “two of the gunmen with him were wounded and a third was arrested,” the ministry said.
Since early 2011, mainly Shiite towns in Eastern Province have seen sporadic protests and confrontations between police and Shiites who are estimated to number some two million in the kingdom.
