One arrested, two killed as Saudi police foil terror attack.

Oqab Al-Otaibi is one of the kingdom’s most wanted terrorists for his involvement in the attack on worshippers at Al-Mustafa mosque. (Al Arabiya)

Al Arabiya EnglishSunday, 1 May 2016

The Saudi interior ministry announced on Sunday that it had arrested one of the kingdom’s most wanted terrorists Oqab Al-Otaibi and revealed the identities of two others killed in a foiled terror attack in the southwestern Bisha province on Friday.

During a press conference, Ministry of Interior spokesman Major General Mansour Al-Turki said Otaibi had remained at large for some time for his involvement in the attack on worshippers at Al-Mustafa mosque in Al-Dalwa village on Nov. 3, 2014.

The spokesman also said two terror suspects were killed during a shootout with security forces in Bisha last Friday.

The casualties were identified as Abdulaziz Ahmed Muhammad Al-Bakri Al-Shihri, 35, and Yasir Ali Yousef Al-Hoodi, 22.

Al-Shihri was wanted for his part in a bomb attack at a mosque used by members of a the local emergency forces in Asir last August. The attack claimed the lives of 12 emergency security officers and three others who were employees at the site.

Al-Shihri was heavily armed at the time of the shootout and was laden with explosives which he carried and wore in a suicide belt.

Al-Houdi, who was an expert in explosives, was also involved in the killing of Brig. Gen. Kattab Al-Otaibi, the spokesman added.

Security forces also said they found arms, ammunition and cash from the possessions of the two suspects.