Australians 'will stay in Saudi'

Australians will continue working in Saudi Arabia despite an Australian engineer being shot dead in an attack probably linked to al-Qaida, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.

Anthony Richard Mason, 57, from Western Australia state, was among those killed when four gunmen opened fire at an oil refinery co-owned by Exxon Mobil and the Saudi company SABIC in the northwestern city of Yanbu on Saturday.