Two terror suspects blew themselves up Saturday (January 21st) during a firefight with security forces in the Red Sea port of Jeddah and a third was arrested in another operation, AFP reported.
Security forces raided a suspected "terrorist" hideout used for making explosive belts and other devices in a southern district of Jeddah, an Interior Ministry spokesman said in a statement.
Two men holed up inside the premises shot at security forces, who returned fire, according to the statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
The men refused to surrender and "blew themselves up by detonating their explosive belts", it said, confirming an earlier statement by Jeddah authorities.
The ministry spokesman also said that a third suspect was arrested on Saturday in a security operation targeting another Jeddah neighbourhood.
The suspect, a Saudi national, is believed to have had links to the two men who blew themselves up, and was arrested with a Pakistani woman he identified as his wife, the spokesman said.
