Irish cameraman killed in Saudi shooting

Updated: 23:09, Sunday, 6 June 2004

An Irish cameraman working for the BBC has been killed and a journalist working with him injured in a shooting in Saudi Arabia.

An Irish cameraman working for the BBC has been killed and a journalist working with him injured in a shooting in Saudi Arabia.

Simon Cumbers, from Navan Co Meath, died and the BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner was injured after unidentified gunmen struck in an Islamist militant neighbourhood in the capital, Riyadh.

The killing comes a week after a terrorist attack left 22 people dead and sparked spiralling oil prices around the world amid fears for the security situation in the kingdom.

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