BBC considers armed guards after drive-by killing of Irish cameraman in Saudi Arabia

THE family of an Irish journalist shot dead in a drive-by shooting in Saudi Arabia on Sunday were waiting last night to find out when the body will come home as security forces launched an investigation into the killing.

Simon Cumbers’s family believe they will not hear any definite news until the end of the week but have been in touch with his wife Louise Bevan, who has travelled to the Gulf state.

Mr Cumbers, a 36-year-old journalist and cameraman, died at the scene of an ambush in the centre of the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday. He was working on an assignment for the BBC with colleague Frank Gardner, the corporation’s security correspondent, who was critically injured.