An official source at the Ministry of Interior said security forces managed to track down a gang of the deviant group who brand people as infidels and call for bombings. The security forces tracked down the gang through carrying out simultaneous security operations in both Madinah and Riyadh in the first hours of today. The security forces chased those belonging to the deviant thinking at six different locations near the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah. The security forces arrested nine of them and when the security forces headed for a sixth location harboring three of them, the security forces and pedestrians came under heavy fire. The situation was tackled as necessary. Two of them were killed and the third was injured and arrested. An expatriate was seriously injured while a security man was moderately injured. Investigation authorities have positively identified one of the two killed as Salih Alo'oofi who is wanted for security authorities. --more 1955 Local Time 1655 GMT
