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An Egyptian pharmacist working in the Saudi Arabian city Sakaka was shot twice when he refused to dispense an antibiotic shot to a customer without a prescription, report local Egyptian news outlets. The pharmacist, Ahmed Hatem Madi, died at the pharmacy following the shooting, and the assailant, an unnamed Saudi citizen, was arrested immediately following the incident. Dispensing medicine, including antibiotics, without a prescription is illegal and punishable by law in Saudi Arabia. Madi leaves behind a young son, a…