RIYADH, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Police vehicle was attacked on Monday morning in Saudi city Qatif in the Eastern Province, Al Arabiya local news reported on Tuesday.
The attack wounded a member of the special emergency forces. The special emergency forces said Cpl. Abdul Aziz al-Turki is receiving treatment in the intensive care unit.
The area has been targeted with similar attacks this month, as militants were trying to prevent the progress of a development project that will replace deserted houses taken as hideouts by fugitives.
On May 16, a Saudi soldier was killed and five policemen injured in a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack that targeted their patrol in Al Masora neighborhood in the Eastern Province.
On May 12 in the same neighborhood, a child and man died and 10 injured in a shooting that targeted the under construction project.
Qatif is one of few disturbed Saudi areas that are populated with minority Saudi Shiite community. Some of its youth are demanding more rights in the Sunni conservative country.
