MAKKAH: A still unidentified suspect has gunned down a policeman in Makkah, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday.

Corporal Khalaf Al-Harithi was shot late on Thursday while on duty at a police station outside the holy city, SPA quoted a local police spokesman as saying.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which happened hours after security forces gunned down two Daesh insurgents during a raid on the terror group's hideout in Wadi No’man, east of Makkah.

Two other terrorists blew themselves up with suicide belts after they were cornered, while a fifth suspect was arrested and is now undergoing interrogation,

the Ministry of Interior said on Thursday.

In another raid in Jeddah, authorities also arrested two terror suspects allegedly plotting to carry out attacks.

Saudi security forces have thwarted a number of attempts by terrorists to sow havoc in the kingdom with the arrest of suspects in the past months following a series of bomb attacks on mosques.