Daesh claims responsibility for killing retired Saudi security official
Ahmad Faie Asiri was killed in Jazan ‘with a silenced pistol’
Riyadh: Saudi police say a retired security official has been shot and killed in the kingdom’s south as Daesh claimed responsibility for a shooting there.
Col. Mohammed Harbi said in a statement that the shooting happened early Monday morning in Jazan province, which is on the kingdom’s border with Yemen. The statement did not identify the man killed.
He said that a man in the Abu Arish area of Jazan region, bordering Yemen, reported at about 230am that his father “was being shot at from an unknown source at his farm”.
Police said a “criminal investigation” was under way into the killing. Usually the Saudi authorities describe Daesh-related attacks as “terrorism”.
Daesh supporters earlier circulated a claim for responsibility online for the shooting death of Saudi Brig. Gen. Ahmad Faie Asiri in Jazan. The claim, which resembled other communiques by the group, said the man was killed with a silenced pistol.
Daesh said that it had shot dead retired brigadier “at his farm in Abu Arish area of Jazan.”
Jazan and other southern border districts have also been subjected to shelling from Yemen since last March when Saudi Arabia began leading an Arab military coalition against Huthi rebels in the neighbouring country.
