Yemen seizes al Qaeda suspects

SANAA, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemen authorities have arrested four Yemeni men and killed another suspected of being linked to al Qaeda, security officials have said.

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The arrests took place on Friday night after Yemeni police tracked a suspected al Qaeda member to an suburb north of Sanaa called Al Rawdha, where the suspect joined several other people, the officials said on Saturday.

By the time the security forces called for support, they were spotted by the suspects and a shootout broke out.

Two police officers and two of the suspects were wounded.

One of the wounded suspects died Saturday; the other is in critical condition, authorities said.

The other three -- one of them identified by Yemen authorities as a high-level al Qaeda member -- were detained and are being questioned.

The nationalities and identities of the suspects have not been disclosed.

A highly placed Yemeni government source told CNN on Friday the captured suspects were taken to an unidentified location, and that U.S. military did not take part in the operation.

Yemen is the ancestral home of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

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