Saudi security forces clashed Sunday with suspected militants in Jeddah, killing one and capturing three others, five days after the US warned of an increased threat of attack to its residents in the Red Sea city. Security forces were raiding a residential building housing a wanted militant in Jeddah's northern Al-Rabwa neighbourhood when a gunbattle erupted, Saudi interior ministry spokesman Mansur al-Turki told AFP.
"A man wanted for security-related matters was captured after being wounded Two of his companions were arrested," he said. "A man who was accompanying the wanted militant was killed in the shootout."
A civilian man and his wife, in addition to an undisclosed number of security officers, were wounded in the incident, Turki said.
The Saudi-owned Dubai-based news channel Al-Arabiya reported that the woman died later of her wounds in hospital.
The US consulate in Jeddah last Tuesday alerted American residents of the Saudi city to an increased threat of attack around a housing compound for expatriates.