RIYADH, June 11: Frank Gardener, the BBC correspondent who was critically injured in a shootout in Riyadh last week, is fighting for his life. The wife of the BBC correspondent said after flying into Riyadh from London that he was fighting hard for his life and she felt better after seeing him.

"Doctors described him as young, fit and fighting for his life. He is working hard to try to stay alive," the local press quoted Frank Gardner's wife, Amanda, as saying.

She said her husband remained heavily sedated and did not realize she was at his bedside. Yet, she told a foreign news agency, "I feel much better that I could see him. He always wanted me to come to Saudi Arabia."

Irish cameraman Simon Cumbers, 36, was killed and Gardner wounded when they were shot by terrorists near the home of a top wanted militant in a southern district of Riyadh.

That was the latest in a string of terror attacks in Saudi Arabia that have increasingly targeted Westerners in recent weeks. A medical source said Gardner, 42, underwent surgery at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital on Wednesday after a slight improvement in his condition.

Amanda Gardner said their two young daughters - Melissa (6) and Sasha (5) - had been told what happened.

FOUR ARRESTED: Four Saudi teenagers have been arrested after attacking two Westerners working as aircraft maintenance technicians in two separate incidents in the summer resort city of Taif, to the east of Jeddah. The four were in police custody and being questioned on the motives behind the attacks.