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Saudi helicopter chasing suspect crashes, 11 hurt
Khaleej Times, (AFP)
30 June 2003
RIYADH - Eleven Saudi policemen were hurt when their helicopter crashed while chasing a suspect who on Saturday shot and seriously injured a security man, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Al-Eqtissadia quoted security sources as saying the helicopter was damaged when it made an emergency landing in the mountains of Assir province, near the borders with Yemen, at sunset on Sunday.
The pilot made the landing because of a defect in the engine and not as a result of shooting, the paper added. The casualties included Brigadier General Mohammad Braiq, preventive security chief of Assir. Most of the injuries were light.
The security men were chasing a suspect wanted by authorities over a “security case” who on Saturday resisted arrest, shot a policeman and fled.
The paper named the suspect as Dhafer Abdulrahman al-Shehri, 27, but did not say on what grounds he was being sought by authorities.
The area along the Saudi-Yemeni border is rife with arms smuggling.
The two Arab nations recently signed an agreement to beef up border
security in a bid to eliminate smuggling and check hundreds of thousands
of infiltrators.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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