4 dead in Saudi raid on 'terror' cell near Mecca: ministry

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi police shot dead two suspected militants and two others blew themselves up during a raid near the holy city of Mecca on Thursday, the interior ministry said.

"The terrorists started shooting towards security forces, which they responded to", leading to the deaths of a pair of suspects while the others "committed suicide by blowing themselves up with suicide belts", the ministry's spokesman said in a statement.

Police had surrounded the suspects' hideout between the holy city of Mecca and the mountain resort of Taif, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the east, on Thursday morning when the shootout occurred.

A simultaneous raid occurred on a hideout in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, where two people were arrested, "and they are being investigated for their involvement in this cell", the spokesman said.

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[MariaThinks]

1. since two blew themselves up, i guess the police got the right people

[maxsolomon]

2. Yay?

I wonder if they're going to claim these were Houthi Terrorists instead of Sunni Jihadis.

I sure wish SA would stop destroying Yemen. There was once a time when I wanted to visit that country. The cities were so cool.