al-Qaida shoot British man in Saudi car park

SUSPECTED al-Qaida killers gunned down a Briton in a car park in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, yesterday.

The three gunmen, driving past in a car, shot the man twice in the chest and twice in the head near a shopping centre in a suburb, security officials said.

The Saudi Interior Ministry said the man was a British resident of Riyadh and was killed in the Max shopping centre’s car park.

The British embassy confirmed his nationality but declined to give his name.

Security officials said the shooting was linked to a wave of anti-Western attacks by supporters of Saudi-born Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network.