Westerners prepare to flee Saudi after shooting rampage
Western oil industry workers who lost five colleagues in a Saudi Arabian shooting rampage finalised plans today to pack up and leave the kingdom.
More than a dozen employees of US oil contractor ABB Lummus Global – Americans, Australians, Italians, Britons – gathered at the bullet-strafed Holiday Inn hotel in Yanbu to work out details for the departure of the entire staff of about 90 plus some family members.