Two al-Qaeda militants blow themselves up in Saudi Arabia


  Written by : Mohamed Abdel Fattah

Jul 05, 2014

 Two suspected al-Qaeda militants blew themselves up early Saturday in southern Saudi Arabia after police surrounded them inside intelligence building, Al-Arabia television reported

The suicide bombing at the intelligence compound in the southern province of Sharurah follows an attack late Friday on the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border which killed a Saudi security officer and a Yemeni soldier

A Saudi security officer and a Yemeni soldier have been killed in two separate attacks on border posts between the two countries, officials said.

The Interior Ministry said a border security patrol came under fire near the Wadia post in the southern province of Sharura, killing the unit’s chief.

Security forces gave chase, killing three of the attackers, while a fourth was wounded and captured, a ministry spokesman said.

The assailants used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades to attack the Yemeni side of the Wadia post, the source said.

Security forces arrested one of the gunmen and were searching for one or two others believed to be hiding in nearby buildings, SPA reported.

The Wadia crossing is in the southeastern Yemeni province of Hadramout, which stretches from the port of Mukalla in the south to the Saudi border, al Qaeda militants use to their advantage across the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia views its 1,800 km (1,100 mile) border with impoverished, conflict-ridden Yemen as a major security challenge. It has been building a security fence since 2003.

Saudi Arabia launched a massive crackdown on Al-Qaeda following a spate of deadly attacks in the kingdom from 2003-2006.

Yemen struggling lack of security borders and collapse of central authority since 2011 uprising that forced Yemen's veteran strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh  from power, al-Qaeda seized swathes of the country's south and east.

Sources

dailystar.com.

Al alarabiya.net

saudigazette

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