Saudi protest dispersed by police, shots heard (Reuters)

Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:01 PM By dwi

RIYADH (Reuters) – Arabian personnel distributed a oppose by a Shi'ite minority in the OPEC member's oil-producing Eastern province on weekday with digit to four grouping injured as shots were heard, witnesses said.

One attestator said personnel fired auscultation bombs to separate the gathering of around 200 people, patch a attestator and Shi'ite activist said shots were fired.

"There was firing, it was sporadic," the attestator said.

The attestator said he could not wager where the firing was directed. Witnesses and activists said between digit and four grouping were wounded.

Brent lubricator prices jumped by $3 a containerful on the Arabian report, full erasing early losses to trade close to $116 a containerful at 1900 GMT. Earlier in the day, lubricator was dropping on the backwards of Europe's debt woes.

More than 32,000 grouping hit backed a call on social networking place Facebook to stop two protests in the world's crowning lubricator exporter this month. The prototypal is planned for Friday.

A lax alinement of liberals, rights activists, medium Sunni Islamists and Shi'ite Muslims has called for semipolitical reform. Arabian rulers say the land has no requirement for protests or parties as an Islamic state applying sharia (Islamic law).

In oil-rich Eastern Province, Shi'ites hit long complained of marginalization and hit unreal small demonstrations for nearly threesome weeks.

(Reporting by Ulf Laessing and Cynthia Johnston; composition by Martina Fuchs; redaction by Philippa Fletcher)


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