Three gunmen were murdered in confrontations with the police in Jeddah
Saudi Arabia, Local, 4/23/2004

News reports said that the Saudi Arabian security forces exchanged fire with suspected besieged in a building in Jeddah on Thursday evening. The reports explained that three of the gunmen were killed, all of them are Saudis, and three security men were injured in the confrontation.

The security forces had besieged a residential building in Um al-Qura street, in al-Safa quarters to the northern east of Jedddah, over suspicion that there are wanted individuals inside it, noting that gunmen inside the building opened fire at the security forces.

The accident came after one booby trapped car went off before the headquarters of the police traffic headquarters in Riyadh that resulted in killing five persons and wounding 145 others.

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