The Ministry of Interior announced today that a police officer was shot and killed in Al-Qatif yesterday as police officers approached suspects in a stolen car with license plates belonging to a wanted terror suspect. The police successfully managed to impair the car, but the suspects opened fire at the policemen and fled in a vehicle they carjacked from a hospital parking.  A manhunt was underway for the gunmen.

On March 8, an off-duty police officer was shot dead in his vehicle in Qatif.