A gunman opened fire on a royal palace guard post in the Red Sea city of Jeddah Saturday (October 7th), killing two Saudi guards and wounding three others, the Interior Ministry said.
Royal guards killed the gunman, identified by the ministry as 28-year-old Saudi national Mansour bin Hassan bin Ali Al Fahid al-Amiri, who was armed with a Kalashnikov and three grenades.
"An outpost of the royal guard outside the western gate of al-Salam Palace in Jeddah came under fire by a person who got out of a Hyundai car at 3:25 a.m. on Saturday," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
"He was immediately dealt with and his cowardly act also resulted in the martyrdom" of two royal guards, while three others were wounded, it added.
"Things are now back to normal in the vicinity of al-Salam Palace after the terrorist attack," military expert and former Saudi military attaché Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Shehri told Al-Mashareq on Monday.
Security and intelligence teams are looking into whether the perpetrator acted on his own or if he had accomplices, he said.
