An official source at the Saudi Ministry of Interior said that at 9:50 p.m. Saturday and about 10 kilometers northeast of the city of Trobah along the Hail-Lainah road,
officers of a security patrol saw a suspicious Toyota jeep car stopping on the road and carrying two persons.
When security men asked the driver to show them his identity card, he fled away. The security men followed the man who traveled along a desert road.
During the chase, the two fugitives threw a hand grenade at the security men resulting in the killing of the two soldiers, SPA reported.
