Second Protester Is Reported Killed in Saudi Arabia Activists posted video of protests said to be from the city of Qatif on Friday. Several people waved flags of nearby Bahrain, where Saudi forces assisted in a brutal crackdown last year. Activists in Saudi Arabia said that for the second day in a row, a protester was shot dead Friday by security forces during demonstrations in the country's oil-rich eastern region. Security forces opened fire on a protest in a small town north of the city of Qatif, said Ahmed Hamad Al Rebh, a 46-year-old Saudi Arabian activist who maintains a main Facebook page for a network of activist videographers in eastern Saudi Arabia. The page, Revolution East, included video of the protester, identified as Zohair Al Saad, shortly before activists said he died from gunshot wounds. A group of men can be seen carrying his limp body and attempting to stanch a wound just below his belt as he lay on the ground. Blood can be seen dripping onto the pavement. Warning, disturbing video. Three others were wounded in the clash, Mr. Al Rebh said in a telephone interview from Beirut. He said he had lived outside Saudi Arabia since early last year for safety. "In Saudi Arabia there are no rubber bullets, no water hoses, no birdshot," he said, referring to the less lethal methods used to quell protests in many countries. There is only live ammunition that is used against peaceful protesters. The demonstrations followed the death of another man on Thursday in clashes with the police on a central avenue in Qatif. Graphic video showing gaping wounds on the blood-covered torso of the man, identified as Muneer al-Meedani, also appeared on activist Web sites. The crackling sound of gunfire can be heard as a small group of men search for cover down an alley near a central intersection in another video said to be from the city on Thursday and posted by Revolution East. One protester carries the flag of the nearby kingdom of Bahrain, where Saudi military forces assisted in a brutal crackdown on large-scale protests last year. The police confirmed on Friday that a man had been killed the day before in Qatif but said the killing occurred after security officers patrolling in the Al-Shwikah district came under fire by masked men and returned fire, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported. The report said four others were wounded. "Security men will deal firmly with all cases and situations that endanger the security and safety of citizens and residents," the report quoted an unnamed police spokesman as saying. At least a dozen others were injured in the clashes on Thursday but had not been treated at hospitals, fearing arrest if they did so, activists said. Though spared the Arab Spring's revolutionary unrest, Saudi Arabia has dealt swiftly with what few protests have been mounted by the country's Shiite-majority population, mostly in the eastern Qatif region. Last March, as waves of unrest swept across the region, Saudi security forces fired on protesters, wounding three. Four people died in clashes there in November, and another was shot and killed by the police last month. Efforts by King Abdullah to mollify protesters by spending billions on welfare last year have not succeeded in easing longstanding tensions between the Shiite population and the country's religiously conservative Sunni government. Activists on the Revolution East page called for further protests in Qatif on Saturday. Mayy El-Sheikh contributed reporting from Cairo.