Saudi citizens responsible for border assault

Saudi Interior ministry's spokesman Mansur Al Turki speaks during a press conference at the Saudi Officers club on July 5, 2014 in Riyadh. Turki said that two suspected of Al Qaeda militants blew themselves up after being trapped inside a security public service building in southern Saudi Arabia, following an attack on a border post with Yemen that left five security officers dead on the two sides of the border. Fayez Nureldine / AFP Photo

RIYADH // Saudi citizens belonging to Al Qaeda were behind an attack near Yemen last week that killed five soldiers and left five Saudi militants dead, the kingdom said on Tuesday.
Interior ministry spokesman Maj Gen Mansour Al Turki said an investigation revealed that six Saudi men who were on a wanted list took part in Friday's attack on a Saudi border post. Gen Al Turki said in a statement released late Monday that one of the men was arrested and the others killed. Another, unidentified militant died in a suicide blast on the Yemeni side of the border that killed a soldier, Yemen's state news agency has reported.
Yemen is home to one of the most active branches of Al Qaeda, and many of its members are Saudi nationals.
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that Yemeni president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi arrived in Saudi Arabia Tuesday and was received by Crown Prince Salman. He is scheduled to meet King Abdullah, the agency reported.
Friday's attack erupted when a suicide car bomber struck the Yemeni side of the border post in the Al-Wadia area, killing one Yemeni soldier. The militants then fled in two cars toward Saudi Arabia and opened fire on soldiers, killing four Saudi border guards. The Saudi Interior Ministry said three militants were killed in the attack.
Shortly after, two of the suspected Al Qaeda militants fled to an empty government building in the kingdom's southwestern province of Sharora where they blew themselves up early Saturday after security forces surrounded them inside. No other people were wounded in the incident, the Interior Ministry said.
* Associated Press