Gunmen kill five in Saudi village

RIYADH: Masked gunmen killed five people in area of eastern Saudi Arabia late on Monday, police said.

Nine people were also wounded in the shooting, the latest in a spate of sporadic unrest in the oil-rich east of the kingdom.

The three assailants fired machineguns and pistols on a

crowd leaving a building in the village of Al-Dalwa in the Al-Ihsa district of Eastern Province, a police spokesman cited by the official SPA news agency said.

The spokesman did not specify what the building was or what motive the gunmen might have had.

Saudi police arrested six suspects Tuesday in a deadly overnight shooting, the interior ministry said.

Police detained the suspects in multiple raids in Eastern Province and the Riyadh region, ministry spokesman General Mansur al-Turki said in a statement. (AFP)