False Report of Death
On 11 June 2011, the Associated Press (AP) erroneously reported Prince Khalid as having died, confusing him instead with King Abdullah's grand-nephew Khalid bin Abdullah bin Saud bin Abdulaziz. On 12 June 2011, AP sent a retraction correcting the earlier false report of Khalid's demise.
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