US: Suit blames Saudi Arabia for 2019 attack at Florida army base

The lawsuit is filed on behalf of the families of three killed by a Saudi military trainee at a base in Florida.

Victims of a 2019 shooting at a military base in the US state of Florida and their families are suing Saudi Arabia, claiming the kingdom knew the gunman had been radicalised and that it could have prevented the killings. The lawsuit was filed on Monday in the Northern District of Florida on behalf of the families of the three who were killed and 13 others who were injured, including sheriff’s deputies. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a Saudi Air Force officer training at the Naval Air Station Pensacola, shot and killed three US sailors on December 6, 2019.