At least six people on the run from Saudi authorities and two policemen were killed in a shootout in the northern region of Qasim, an interior ministry spokesman revealed. Security forces, which have stepped up a crackdown on Islamic militants in Saudi Arabia, came under gunfire and grenade attack during a raid on a farm in Ayun al-Jawa where the fugitives were hiding out, the spokesman said. The clash “left six fugitives and two members of the security forces dead”, he said. Nine others, all but one of them policemen, were injured. Full Story