Six mortar shells hit eastern border of Saudi Arabia

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Six mortar shells of unknown source hit an area on Saudi Arabia's eastern border with Iraq and Kuwait, causing no damage, Saudi Press Agency reported Thursday, quoting a military spokesman.Saudi authorities are contacting their two neighbors to inquire the source of the shells to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future, General Mohammed al-Ghamdi, the spokesman, said.Local residents were quoted by Al Arabia TV as saying some Saudi warplanes were seen flying over the area early on Thursday.Hafr al-Batin, a desert region near Iraq and Kuwait, hosted a U. S. army headquarters during Operation Desert Storm that prompted the pullout of Iraqi troops from Kuwait in 1991, the TV noted.Tension between Saudi Arabia and Iraq goes back to the first Gulf war in the early 1990s. There has been no Saudi ambassador sent to Iraq for years.