RIYADH -
A Saudi police officer was report dead on Tuesday, the interior ministry said,
in a violence claimed by the Islamic State group in the Riyadh region.
Colonel Kattab Majid al-Hammadi was murdered by shooting "from an unknown source" in the town of Duwadimi, the ministry said in a statement, adding that an investigation has been started.
Najd Province, the IS member in Saudi Arabia, said in a statement on Twitter that its militants had "assassinated" the officer. It endangered more attacks against security forces in the territory.
The attack is the second claimed by the IS group against Saudi police in the past four days. The interior ministry declared that a foreign resident was killed in a bomb blast targeting a police patrol vehicle late on Saturday, also in the Riyadh region.
Establishments did not mentioned the nationality of the victim in that incident but said two security patrol vehicles parked in the area were spoiled in the bombing claimed by Najd Province. IS frequently claims attacks on Saudi security forces as well as lethal bombings and shootings that target the kingdom's minority.
In August, an IS suicide bomber struck a mosque inside a Saudi special forces headquarters, killing 15 people.
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