Saudi police on Wednesday shot dead a militant suspected of killing five policemen in the kingdom's ultraconservative Muslim heartland a day earlier, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.
Another gunman, on a most wanted list of militants linked to al Qaeda, also died in custody on Wednesday after being wounded during a shootout with police following on Tuesday's attack in the northern province of Qassim, the site of several shootouts with al Qaeda-linked militants.
"There is one (other) terrorist killed today," a ministry spokesman said. "He will be subject to some tests, like DNA, to confirm his identity and to see whether he is on the list of wanted criminals and if he was linked to yesterday's crime."
A security source named the man as Abdel-Rahman al-Meteb, who is also on the most wanted list.
Gunmen on Tuesday killed three of the policeman after driving their car into a checkpoint. They also shot dead two policemen on patrol in the nearby town of Buraida.
Police shot and wounded one of the militants and an Interior Ministry statement identified him as Mohammed Abdulrahman al-Suweilmi, who was on a list of 36 wanted militants linked to al Qaeda.
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