'Second Briton dead' in Saudi siege Officials were investigating reports that a second Briton had died in a bloody 24-hour siege in Saudi Arabia. Earlier it was confirmed that a British oil executive had been shot dead at the start of the siege. Gunmen held up to 50 people hostage in a residential compound after attacking the offices of two oil companies in the eastern city of Al Khobar. It ended with security forces storming the militants' stronghold. The gunmen were initially believed to have killed 22 people - eight Indians, three Filipinos, three Saudis, two Sri Lankans, an American,...