DUBAI - Saudi Arabian police in Assir, a region close to the Yemeni border, are investigating after a shooting incident in which six citizens died on Tuesday, state-run news agency SPA reported on Wednesday.

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Three Saudis were also injured and taken to hospital, it said, giving no details on the nature of the incident which happened in al-Amwah.