UPI en Español  |   UPI Asia  |   About UPI  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Saudi Prince Muhammad dies

|
 
Published: July 8, 2012 at 8:30 PM

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, July 8 (UPI) -- Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Saud bin Abdul Aziz died abroad Sunday, the royal court announced in a statement. He was in his late 70s.

Prince Muhammad, who was born in Riyadh in 1934, was emir of the al-Baha region from 1987 to 2010.

The royal court said funeral prayers will be recited after sunset prayers Monday at a mosque in Riyadh, the Saudi Gazette reported.

The statement made no mention of a cause or location of the prince's death.

Muhammad was the third son of King Saud, serving in a number of positions, including minister of defense and aviation, before his father was deposed in a power struggle with his half-brother, Faisal, in 1964.

Married to one of King Faisal's daughters, he pledged fealty to the new king and went on to hold a number of other important positions in the kingdom.

Topics: Abdul Aziz, King Faisal
© 2012 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening NBC upfronts Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York Spire raised on top of One WTC 2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces
Additional World News Stories
1 of 16
Flags-In Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
View Caption
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
fark
Everyone's used to gas prices climbing up on the Memorial Day weekend, but now they're faced with...
#26minutes
If train A leaves the station at 7:45 AM traveling east at 45 mph and train B leaves a different...
Top 10 new species revealed. Behold the blue-balled monkey
Plagiarism, sex in conference rooms, wandering the halls socializing. Sometimes there aren't enough...
Experts say that U.S. schools should make physical education a core subject. Probably because most...