Incident Date:
May 01, 2004
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Yanbu Saudi Arabia
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Armed Assault
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Unknown Gun Type)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Utilities(Gas substations)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 5 fatalities, 1 injuries
Perpetrators:
Description: "05/01/2004: Gunmen accessed a petrochemical site in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, and went on a shooting rampage. The gunmen killed five Western engineers working for the Swiss-based company ABB Lummus. A Canadian was injured during the attack, believed to be the first against an oil facility in Saudi Arabia."
References: 1) ITAC
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