DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has captured a man who features on a list of Shi'ites being sought in connection with unrest in the eastern part of the kingdom after a shootout with security forces, state news agency SPA reported late on Monday.
The agency quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman as saying that a security contingent raided a house in the town of Awamiya on information that the wanted man, Abbas Ali al-Mizre, was present there along with eight other people who are being sought for drugs offences.
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