Saudi Arabia has said it killed a suspect linked to al Qaeda and who was involved in the killing of four Frenchmen.
SPA, the official news agency, said on Friday that the suspect, Waleed bin Mutliq al-Radadi, one of the most wanted men in the kingdom, was killed when police stormed a residential building in the city of Medina.
A policeman was also killed and two others wounded after an exchange of gunfire with the suspect, SPA said.
Four French nationals were killed by on February 26 in the Gulf country during a desert trip. There was no claim for the attack.
Radadi was number six on the 15 most-wanted list issued by Saudi Arabia in 2005.
The February attack was the first in three months against Westerners in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom was rocked by a spate of bombings and shootings blamed on suspected al-Qaeda fighters that started in May 2003, triggering a relentless security crackdown on Islamist extremists.