Gunmen fired at two US citizens yesterday on a road in Eastern Province, leaving one wounded, in the fourth anti-Western attack in Saudi Arabia in as many months, police said.

The two Americans were travelling on a road in Al Ihsaa governorate. A US embassy spokesman said: “We are aware of the reports and are looking into them.”

It was the fourth attack since October on Westerners in the kingdom, which in September joined a US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in Syria and Iraq.-Reuters