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One killed in military base blast in Saudi Arabia

Wednesday, 08 April 2015 5:49 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 08 April 2015 5:49 PM ]

Governor of al-Bahah Region of Saudi Arabia Mishari bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud visits the injured from a blast in the north of the country on April 8, 2015. (Photo credit: The official Saudi Press Agency)

An explosion at a military base in northern Saudi Arabia has killed one person and left a number of others wounded.

According to Saudi media outlets, King Fahd Hospital in al-Bahah Region in the country’s southwest was placed on alert following the incident.

The wounded were transferred to the hospital by helicopter.

The official Saudi Press Agency said Bahah Governor Mishari bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has visited the injured.

The outlet did not refer to the number of the casualties from the incident, but said the victims had sustained the injuries during a joint military exercise between Saudi ground forces and special units from the Pakistani army.

Earlier in the day, two Saudi policemen were killed in a shooting incident in the capital, Riyadh. According to a Saudi policeman, speaking on the condition of anonymity, the policemen were killed after their patrol came under fire in a drive-by shooting early on Wednesday morning, Saudi media reported.

On April 6, a Saudi police officer identified as Corporal Majed bin Turki al-Qahtani died and five people, including three other officers and two citizens, were wounded following an operation to crack down on dissent in the restive town of Awamiya in the Qatif region of Eastern Province.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minister Prince Mohammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on March 26 ordered the strengthening of security measures along Saudi borders and across the kingdom, including at oil facilities, as Riyadh pushes ahead with its aggression against Yemen.

The military aggression started on March 26, without a UN mandate, in a bid to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. The airstrikes have killed hundreds of people and injured thousands more in the impoverished Arab state.

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