Saudi Arabian police kill suspected IS militant

Dubai: Saudi Arabian security forces killed a suspected IS militant when he pulled a gun on a patrol in the capital Riyadh, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
The patrol was trying to check a complaint on Tuesday evening that a resident of a flat in the capital's Al Rayyan district had joined IS militant group.
"When security men tried to arrest him, he initiated resistance and pulled a gun and it became necessary to deal with him and neutralise him, which led to his death," the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
A companion of the dead man was arrested and found to be in possession of a weapon, it said.
The hardline militant group has carried out a series of bombings and shootings in Saudi Arabia since mid-2014 that have killed scores of people, mostly members of the minority and security forces.
The militant group, bitterly opposed to leader, is trying to stir sectarian confrontation on the Arabian peninsula.
In a separate incident, a policeman was shot and killed by unidentified assailants in Tarout Island in eastern Saudi Arabia, an area where many of the country's minority live, according to another interior ministry statement.