RIYADH: Police in Saudi Arabia have shot dead an Islamic State group member, and an officer was gunned down in a separate incident, the interior ministry said yesterday. Officers were called at 6:00 pm yesterday to an apartment in Riyadh's Al-Rayan district where a suspect was "flaunting his support" for the IS extremist group, the ministry said in a statement. "He started to resist and waved a gun which he was carrying," forcing police to eliminate "the threat he posed", the ministry added. Another suspect was arrested. Shortly before Tuesday's incident, a policeman was killed in Qatif on the kingdom's Gulf coast, a separate ministry statement said. In the late afternoon, he was shot "from an unknown source" as he tried to leave a police station in his personal car, it said.

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