Al-Qaeda suspect held after killing 5 Saudi cops
Foreign Desk Report

RIYADH—Five Saudi policemen were killed on Tuesday during a shooting spree by a gunman who security sources said was a wanted militant and who was later arrested. An Interior Ministry statement, on the official Saudi Press Agency, said a man was arrested after shooting three policemen at a checkpoint in the ultra-conservative northern Qassim province, site of several shootouts with al Qaeda-linked militants.
Earlier, the same gunman had killed two policemen on patrol near the northern town of Buraida. Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said the man was on a list of 36 wanted militants linked to al Qaeda. Five Saudi police have been killed and a suspect captured in clashes north of the capital, an interior ministry spokesman said.
Two police were killed by gunfire from a car to the east of Buraida, capital of Qassim province, the spokesman was quoted as saying Tuesday by the official SPA agency. Three more police died when the car’s occupants opened fire on a roadblock near Al-Midhnab, in the same region, he said, adding that security forces had chased the car, wounding and arresting the driver.