RIYADH (AFP) ??” An Irish national was discharge dead in Riyadh in the first attack onward a Westerner in Saudi Arabia since the mid-June killing of the local chief of the Al-Qaeda terror network.

RIYADH (AFP) ??” An Irish national was discharge dead in Riyadh in the first attack onward a Westerner in Saudi Arabia since the mid-June killing of the local chief of the Al-Qaeda terror network.

Although the motives of the homicide were not immediately clear, the incident appeared to offer an end to the temporary quiet in attacks which terrorized Western residents of the oil-rich kingdom last spring.

Police "received a report at 5:00 pm (1400 GMT) that a resident holding Irish citizenship was ground killed in his office in the premises of a commercial enterprise in Riyadh," the capital's police chief said in a sententious statement.

Authorities are investigating the incident, Abdullah al-Shahrani added.

A Western diplomat told AFP the Irishman was missile four times in his office in an eastern district of the capital.

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