Police in Saudi Arabia have dismantled a suspected Qaeda ring of six Yemeni members believed to be part of a recent battle between Saudi police and terrorism suspects in Jazan, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
Two suspects were killed and a third was arrested in the battle.
The killed on last Tuesday had planned to carry out a terrorist attack in the kingdom along with six Yemeni accomplices based inside the kingdom, the ministry said in a statement.
The statement noted that the two, both Saudi nationals, were in the list of 85 terrorism suspects wanted by the Saudi authorities that the ministry made public in February.
One of them was said to have armed himself with a half-kg explosive belt and was ready to detonate himslef.
They earlier infiltrated into Saudi Arabia's territory from the south and arranged for the attack in association with the six Yemeni suspects now under arrest, according to the ministry.
The would-be terrorist attack came after a previously failed plot to assassin Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, Saudi, Deputy Assistant of Interior Minister.
Early this year, Al-Qaeda wings in Yemen and Saudi Arabia announced a merge to form Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Some of Saudi terrorists who then moved to Yemen were arrested and others handed themselves in to Saudi and Yemeni authorities.