Dane Shot and Wounded in Saudi Capital
A Danish citizen was shot and wounded in the Saudi capital on Saturday, police said, but there was no immediate word on the motive for the rare attack.
The shooting occurred at 2:00 pm (1100 GMT) when the Danish man was driving away from his work at a company in Riyadh's Kharj Road area, police said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
"He was shot in the shoulder" by someone who has not been identified, the report said.
"Investigations are ongoing," and the victim is in stable condition at hospital, it said.
In October, a Saudi-American former employee of a U.S. defense contractor shot dead one American colleague and wounded another in Riyadh.
The suspect had recently been fired from his job, officials said.
That was the first deadly attack on Westerners in Saudi Arabia since several were killed in a wave of Al-Qaida violence between 2003 and 2006.
Since September, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Bahrain have participated in a U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria, raising concerns about possible retaliation in the kingdom.
Denmark is among the countries -- with Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, France and the Netherlands -- participating in a similar campaign against IS in Iraq.
Source: Agence France Presse
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