Al Qaeda frontman in Saudi Arabia killed in Riyadh

Al-Qaeda frontman in Saudi Arabia Moroccan Younes Hayari was killed Sunday in clashes with security forces, said Saudi press agency SPA, quoting an official in the Interior Ministry.

Younes Hayari was killed in a shootout with security forces after they stormed a suspected militants' hideout in an eastern neighborhood of Riyadh, said the source.

Hayari, 36, went to Saudi Arabia in February 2001 to perform pilgrimage and stayed illegally in the country. He is allegedly involved in a wave of violence unleashed by Al-Qaeda in the country.

On June 28, the Interior Ministry released a new list of 36 wanted militants, topped by Hayari.

Twenty-one persons on the list were thought to be abroad. The list was the third of its kind published in the past two years.