Nine militants killed as Saudi clashes rage on
At least nine Islamist gunmen including two most-wanted Al-Qaeda leaders have been killed in fierce fighting with security forces that raged on in the kingdom for a third day Tuesday, officials and media reports said.
The gunbattles that erupted Sunday after Saudi security men laid siege to a house in the northern town of Al-Rass are the deadliest since a wave of deadly Islamist violence began two years ago.
Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television reported Monday that two leaders of a Saudi Al-Qaeda cell on Riyadh's list of 26 most-wanted had been killed, identifying them as Saudi Saud al-Otaibi and Moroccan Abdel Karim al-Mojati.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Two more militants were killed on Tuesday, an interior ministry spokesman said.
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