RIYADH: The Interior Ministry said on Monday that two armed men attacked a patrol of border guards near Saudi Arabia’s frontier with Iraq, killing two guards and wounding a third.
The ministry says the attack occurred at dawn Monday near Arar, the provincial capital of the Northern Borders Province, along the border with Iraq.
It said the terrorists opened fire on the patrol. The guards returned fire, killing one of the attackers. The other detonated his explosives and blew himself up, the Saudi Press Agency quoted a ministry spokesperson as saying.
2 Saudi border guards killed in attack near Iraq border
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