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Four die in eastern Saudi Arabia police raid<\/strong>
\n20 February, 2014 – BBC<\/p>\n

Two police officers and two men they were trying to arrest have been killed in a gunfight in Saudi Arabia’s restive Eastern Province, officials say.<\/p>\n

The interior ministry said the officers came under fire while trying to detain “armed troublemakers” in al-Awamiya, and had “responded to the source”.<\/p>\n

It named the civilians who were killed as Ali al-Faraj and Hussein al-Faraj.<\/p>\n

However, opposition activists said there had been no exchange of fire and that the two men had been unarmed.<\/p>\n

The police officers had burst into the house of a man in search of his wanted brother who was not there, they added.<\/p>\n

Ali, the house owner’s 22-year-old son, was shot 11 times while running away, one activist told the Reuters news agency. Hussein, a 34-year-old local photographer, died “as he documented the raid”, the activist said.<\/p>\n

The local news website mirataljazeera.net said Hussein had documented anti-government demonstrations and the funerals of the more than 20 people who have been killed in Eastern Province since early 2011.<\/p>\n

The oil-rich Eastern Province is home to a Shia majority that has long complained of marginalisation at the hands of the Sunni ruling family.<\/p>\n

Protests erupted there when the pro-democracy uprising in neighbouring Bahrain, which has a Shia majority and a Sunni royal family, was crushed with the assistance of Saudi and other Gulf troops. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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