The search in the village of Awamiya came amid rising anger in neighbouring Bahrain after authorities stripped the spiritual leader of the kingdom's majority Shi'ite Muslims of his citizenship.
A wanted man has been killed in Saudi Arabia’s oil-producing Eastern province after an exchange of gunfire while police were searching his home, state news agency SPA reported on Thursday.
The search in the village of Awamiya came amid rising anger in neighbouring Bahrain after authorities stripped the spiritual leader of the kingdom’s majority Shi’ite Muslims of his citizenship over alleged links to Iran and accusations he was fomenting sectarian tensions.
Saudi state news agency SPA said security forces came under heavy fire when they raided the home of Abdul-Rahim al-Faraj and his brother, Majed, who was also wanted by security forces, in Awamiya on Wednesday evening.