The security services have arrested four suspects on assassinating of the Political Security's officer Saleh Amtheeb, two of them were al Qaeda members, a security source said to the 26sep.net on Saturday.

Amtheeb died last Thursday in Zinjobar city, in the southern province of Apyan, after a gunman riding a motorcycle, who shot Amtheeb and fled, the security source explained.The arrested were two of al Qaeda elements and the other two were outlaw elements, one of them was found in his possession the gun by which the crime was committed, the source said.The source pointed out that two suspects on a motorcycle were captured and two others were arrested by statements from the accused and witnesses and they are being investigated to be referred to the prosecution.