SANAA (AFP/Reuters) - Yemeni security forces, under US pressure to rein in suspected extremists, Wednesday captured a key Al-Qaeda leader believed behind threats that saw foreign embassies in Sanaa hastily bolting their doors, police said. The arrest of Mohammed al-Hanq and two other suspected Al-Qaeda militants at a hospital in Raydah, north of capital, came as Yemens authorities said Al-Qaeda militants were being choked countrywide and forced into holes. Hanq had evaded arrest on Monday during a security force raid in Arhab, 40km north of Sanaa, in which two of his relatives were killed and three other people wounded. A security official told AFP security forces had Wednesday morning swooped on a hospital in Raydah, 80km north of Sanaa in Amran province, where the suspects were receiving treatment. Mohammed al-Hanq and two others who were wounded were captured in a hospital in Amran, the official said. Two other Al-Qaeda suspects meanwhile turned themselves in to the authorities in the region of Marib, east of Sanaa, on Wednesday, and a third surrendered in Arhab, a security official said. The Interior Ministry said Wednesday its security forces were repeatedly raiding hideouts of terrorist elements in several provinces and had turned their fight against terrorism into a daily confrontation. (Security operations) are not leaving the terrorist elements the chance to take a breath or reorganise their lines, the Ministry said in a statement on its website. The Yemeni forces surrounded a suspected Al-Qaeda regional leader in a house near the capital, as the country cracked down on militancy. The forces had surrounded the house where the suspected Al-Qaeda commander was believed to be hiding in Arhab, 60km northeast of Sanaa, defence sources said. They said the man was the target of a raid earlier this week. Security forces have secured and surrounded the area where the house is located but no fighting was taking place, a Yemeni official told Reuters. Four other people who had been sheltering the wounded militants were also detained on Tuesday, the source said. He added that doctors in the hospital may not have realised the men they were treating were suspected Al-Qaeda members. Security sources described all the Al-Qaeda militants arrested in recent days as rank-and-file members of the group. France said on Wednesday it reopened its embassy to the public after following the United States and Britain on Sunday in closing the mission to the public due to security concerns. The British embassy said on its website that it has reopened but that public services remained closed. The US embassy reopened on Tuesday. The fresh arrests bring to eight the number of Al-Qaeda suspects held in the current manhunt, security sources said. Five others were arrested earlier this week from homes where they were hiding.