Saudi security forces are hunting three men suspected to be al-Qaida members after thwarting what they believe was an attempt to blow up a mosque in the kingdom, a newspaper said. Acting on a tip-off late on Wednesday night that three men were behaving suspiciously near a mosque, police converged on al-Muwaya area but the suspects fled, Al-Riyadh newspaper reported on its website. The three, referred to by police as members of a deviant group - usually a reference to Usama bin Ladin's al-Qaida which is seeking to overthrow the Saudi ruling family - fled in a white jeep, the paper said. The men were apparently seen with some wires at a mosque near a police station on the road from Riyadh to Taif in the west of the country. The incident came on the eve of the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha, with an estimated three million pilgrims in the kingdom to perform the Hajj.