The attackers tied the body of one of the victims to the back of a commandeered car before fleeing, according to one witness who, like all residents reached in Yanbu, spoke only on condition of anonymity.
The English-language Saudi Gazette's online version reported that the attackers stripped the man naked before tying him to a vehicle and dragging him along a road as they made their getaway in two cars.
The newspaper showed a photograph of a man, apparently dead, lying in a pool of blood in the middle of a road wearing only black trousers and surrounded by a crowd of Saudi bystanders wearing white robes. It was unclear if the man was one of the attackers or victims.
Another witness said the gunmen engaged police in a shootout outside the Holiday Inn hotel, but nobody was hurt. They fled, and opened fire again in downtown Yanbu.
"Security forces were able to kill three of them and injure and capture the fourth," the Interior Ministry said. A security official later said the fourth attacker died of his wounds.
In another, near-simultaneous attack in the city, a pipe bomb was thrown over a wall of Yanbu International School, causing minor damage and slightly injuring the school's custodian, according to the Overseas Security Advisory Council, which shares security information between the U.S. government and the private sector.
Staff and children had already been advised not to report to school that morning, the U.S. Embassy's Web site said."
There's a lot more specifics like the company and so on but it was quite long.
Students told the AP on Sunday that bearded men drove a car drove into the parking lot of the Ibn Hayyan Secondary Boys School as classes began Saturday, the start of the school week. They fired into the air to attract students' attention, then urged the boys to go to an Iraqi city where U.S. troops are battling insurgents. "God is great! God is great! Come join your brothers in Fallujah!" they shouted. Pointing to the bloodied and badly damaged corpse, his clothes shredded, they screamed: "This is the president of America." Students and school officials said some of the boys ran crying from the scene. An 18-year-old student, who gave only his first name, Rayyan, said he saw three bearded men in the car.
Sent a chill right down my spine.