Five
of the six teachers shot by a colleague last week Thursday Feb. 11th at
their school were laid to rest on Saturday afternoon Feb. 13th.
The funeral was attended by senior education officials, several
teachers, relatives, friends of the deceased, and the Saudi education
minister, Ahmad Al Eisa.
The sixth victim was buried in
another town while the seventh victim of the mass shooting in the
southern region of Jazan will be buried after the forensic doctors
extract all the bullets from his body as requested by the investigators
looking into the incident.
The
tragedy occurred on Thursday afternoon when the killer stormed into the
education building in Southern Saudi Arabia and opened fire at the men,
killing six of them. Witnesses said that he later attempted to flee the
scene in his car, but
was eventually caught and referred to the public prosecution for
investigation.
As
people are seeking answers to pressing questions about the reasons
behind the unprecedented mass killing in an education office, the
mystery remained deep despite all the speculations. A senior
education official in Sabya, the district overseeing the education
office, denied claims there was antagonism or tension between the killer
and the victims.
"The victims fell to the random shooting and
they were not personally targeted by the killer as he pointed his
machine gun," the official said, quoted by Al Riyadh.
"In fact those who work in the education office did not know the killer and have never seen him before the tragedy."
Source: Saudi daily Al Riyadh
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