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Riyadh's skyline
RIYADH (Reuters) - A US national was shot dead and another wounded when their car was fired upon in an eastern district of Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on Tuesday afternoon, a police spokesman said in a statement carried by state media.
An assailant was cornered and arrested, the statement said.
Photos have circulated on Twitter purporting to show the site of the attack:
One American killed, another wounded in the #Saudi capital #Riyadh pic.twitter.com/DwZIFVunaF
- Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) October 14, 2014
According to the police statement, the Americans were attacked while stopped at a gas station. There was an exchange of fire, leading to the attacker's injury and arrest.
Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour Turki later said that the motive behind the shooting is currently unknown.
The assailant is a Saudi national who was born in the United States, Turki told Reuters. He added that a third US national in a separate vehicle witnessed the attack.
(Reporting by Angus McDowall, Editing by William Maclean and Alison Williams)