Saudi security forces fired live ammunition on unarmed Shia protesters in the kingdom's oil-rich east at dawn on Friday killing one person and wounding three, witnesses and activists said.
Security forces shot at protesters after several of them hurled stones at one of their vehicles in the village of Al-Awamiya in the Qatif region, witnesses said.
Activists said Issam Mohammed, 22, was killed by multiple bullet wounds.
Three other people were wounded by security force fire, one of them a man driving through a checkpoint at the entrance to the village, the activists said.
