Riyadh: one wanted killed in Jeddah
Saudi Arabia, Local, 11/10/2004

The Saudi authorities announced it had killed one member of the so-called "misled group" and another was injured while two were detained in Jeddah earlier on Tuesday.

One official source at the Saudi ministry of the interior said in a statement that within the course of "security follow up of members of the misled group, four wanted by the security sides were monitored" in al-Jameia quarters in Jeddah province. The source added that the "security forces were able to arrest one of them and besieging the other inside one house in al-Jameia quarters."

The source continued that the chased men "started opening fire at the security men and their fire was returned and this resulted in killing one of them and injuring another while a third surrendered," adding that two security men were injured in the incident. The statement added that the security forces found inside the house "machine guns and several bombs and various types of ammunition."

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