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Two Saudi guards killed in attack on Iraq frontier - Saudi ministry


    RIYADH (Reuters) - Attackers killed two Saudi Arabian border guards and injured three others on the kingdom's frontier with Iraq in a shooting and suicide assault early on Monday, the Saudi interior ministry said.

    The attackers shot at a border patrol near Arar and when security officers responded, one of the attackers was captured and detonated an explosives belt, the ministry said in a brief statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

    (Reporting By Angus McDowall, Editing by William Maclean)