Saudi court hands death sentence to man convicted of 2004 attack on Swiss firm

Saudi firefighters extinguish a burning car used by suspected militants who shot dead four Westerners in an attack in the Red Sea port of Yanbu May 1, 2004. REUTERS/Stringer CRB

RIYADH (Reuters) - A man has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for killing six Westerners and a Saudi soldier in an al Qaeda attack in the city of Yanbu in 2004, local media reported on Tuesday.

The shooting at Swiss engineering firm ABB Lummus Global and a subsequent police chase killed two Americans, two Britons, one Canadian, one Australian and one Saudi. Three of the four attackers also died.