Two policemen, one Islamist killed in a chase in Saudi Arabia

Two Saudi policemen were killed on Saturday when a suspected "terrorist" threw a mortar at them while they were chasing him in an incident in which two of the chased men were killed.

Meantime, the Saudi security forces continued its campaign of arrest which targets persons suspected to be involved in the Riyadh explosions. Six persons were declared to be arrested in the few past days.

The Saudi daily al- Watan said that the suspected man and another one with him in the same car wounded gravely three policemen in the clash which took place in Turba town to the north of the Saudi city of Hael on Saturday. One of the suspects was killed and the second escaped.

The paper described the two men as "terrorists" and explained that the police stopped their car at an inspection point. The police said that the driver gave the policemen a driving license document with the name Abdullah al-Ajlaan and it was found out he is among the wanted.

Meanwhile, the Saudi daily al-Riyadh said that the Saudi authorities arrested 6 persons in the past three days in the framework of the campaign launched by the security forces to arrest persons suspected to be linked to the Riyadh explosions. The paper said the security men broke into a flat in a building in al-Madina al-Munawara, detained two persons and found in a nearby flat instruments that can be used in making explosives. The others were also arrested in the same city.