Saudi Arabia: four extremists killed in Breida
Saudi Arabia, Local, 5/21/2004

Four Saudi extremists were killed suspected to be wanted "extremists " and one member of the Saudi security forces during fire exchange in Breida city in al-Qasim to the north west of the capital Riyadh yesterday, according to the Saudi ministry of the interior.

The Saudi official news agency quoted an official source in the ministry as saying that " the security forces monitored at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, five wanted persons of the ( mislead ) group in one of the cafe stations in Khdeira, al-Breida area in al-Qasim. As soon as the security forces started its mission it was exposed to intensive machine gun fire." The statement added that the " incident resulted in killing four wanted .. and wounding one of them. One security man was killed and two others injured. Weapons and ammunition was found and one of the wounded wanted men died later." Well informed sources said that the two booby trapped cars found in April in al-Shammmaseyah on the way between al-Qaseim and Riyadh are registered in the name of one of the four suspected men who were killed in the clashes.

Meantime, Yemeni official sources announced that 14 of the Yemeni and Saudi border experts were wounded as the helicopter plane carrying a joint Saudi - Yemeni delegation fell on the joint borders between the two states.

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