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By NADIA AL-FAWAZ | ARAB NEWS
Published: Oct 6, 2011 21:10 Updated: Oct 6, 2011 21:10
ABHA: A 23-year-old Saudi medical student in Yemen was killed Wednesday when he was mysteriously shot in the back, the Kingdom's cultural attaché in Sanaa confirmed on Thursday.
Abdul Rahman bin Saad Al-Hussainan said the body of Muhammad Saleh bin Abdat Al-Kuthairi was kept in a private hospital morgue and added that his father would arrive in Sanaa Friday.
According to the attaché, Al-Kuthairi was coming out of a restaurant near the presidential palace in Sanaa with some of his friends when he was shot in the back. The bullet pierced his heart.
This is not a combat zone. There was no fighting or any sort of clashes in this particular area. The source of the bullet was not known but investigations were currently under way, he said.
Riyadh bin Ibrahim Al- Nafeesa, head of students affairs at the Saudi Embassy in Sanaa, said the third-year medical student had just come out of the restaurant with two of his colleagues when he suddenly fell down and started to bleed. The colleagues took him to a private hospital but he died 10 minutes before reaching there. The bullet hit him on the back and went out through the heart, he explained.
Al-Nafeesa said preliminary investigations ruled out any criminal intent and added it seemed that the bullet had come from a far place as none of his friends had heard the sound of gunfire.
He, however, believed that further details would be revealed within two days time.
Al-Kuthairis father Saleh bin Abdat said his son was studying medicine on a government scholarship in the University of Science and Technology in Sanaa. He revealed that his son only got married about two months ago.
Many Saudis studying in Yemen came back home after the start of the political unrest in the country but Al-Kuthairi was one of the few who remained to finish their courses.
Meanwhile, Saudis studying in Yemen have asked the Ministry of Higher Education to let them continue their studies at the Kingdom's government and private universities while maintaining the scholarships paid to them.
Fourth-year dentistry student Maraie Abu Dubail said the Saudi students were evacuated from Yemen by air when the unrest started in May. Since then we have been waiting for the situation in Yemen to improve but it has not. We have to have a chance to complete our studies in our own country, he said.
Abu Dubail said Saudi students in Yemen were studying various subjects including medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, engineering, arts, English language and others. Some of us have spent about six or seven years in Yemen and are about to graduate, he said.
He said though the Ministry of Higher Education had issued a no-objection decision for affected students to complete their studies at home, local universities are refusing to accept them. Whenever we approach any Saudi university they ask us to bring a clear-cut decision from the ministry endorsing our admission, not just a no-objection paper, he said.
Abu Dubail said some of the Saudi students evacuated from Yemen are married with children. We have not been paid our scholarship emoluments for about six months.
Medicine students Abdullah Al-Shahrani and Miraie Al-Qahtani and dentistry student Muhammad Asiri, who were all studying in Yemen, said though they were at a critical stage of their studies, the ministry has not issued any decision allowing them to enroll in Saudi universities.
They said fellow students from other areas, including Abha, Riyadh and Jeddah, faced the same fate. The universities prefer to accept fresh students coming out of secondary schools instead of giving us a chance to complete our studies, Asiri said.
They said students from Jordan, Syria and other Arab countries were taken back to their respective countries and given the opportunity to complete their studies there. They urged Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and the minister of higher education to intervene.
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We lost a colleague today....May he rest in peace
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Saudi medical student killed in Sanaa shooting - Arab News
Published: Oct 6, 2011 21:10 Updated: Oct 6, 2011 21:10
ABHA: A 23-year-old Saudi medical student in Yemen was killed Wednesday when he was mysteriously shot in the back, the Kingdom's cultural attaché in Sanaa confirmed on Thursday.
Abdul Rahman bin Saad Al-Hussainan said the body of Muhammad Saleh bin Abdat Al-Kuthairi was kept in a private hospital morgue and added that his father would arrive in Sanaa Friday.
According to the attaché, Al-Kuthairi was coming out of a restaurant near the presidential palace in Sanaa with some of his friends when he was shot in the back. The bullet pierced his heart.
This is not a combat zone. There was no fighting or any sort of clashes in this particular area. The source of the bullet was not known but investigations were currently under way, he said.
Riyadh bin Ibrahim Al- Nafeesa, head of students affairs at the Saudi Embassy in Sanaa, said the third-year medical student had just come out of the restaurant with two of his colleagues when he suddenly fell down and started to bleed. The colleagues took him to a private hospital but he died 10 minutes before reaching there. The bullet hit him on the back and went out through the heart, he explained.
Al-Nafeesa said preliminary investigations ruled out any criminal intent and added it seemed that the bullet had come from a far place as none of his friends had heard the sound of gunfire.
He, however, believed that further details would be revealed within two days time.
Al-Kuthairis father Saleh bin Abdat said his son was studying medicine on a government scholarship in the University of Science and Technology in Sanaa. He revealed that his son only got married about two months ago.
Many Saudis studying in Yemen came back home after the start of the political unrest in the country but Al-Kuthairi was one of the few who remained to finish their courses.
Meanwhile, Saudis studying in Yemen have asked the Ministry of Higher Education to let them continue their studies at the Kingdom's government and private universities while maintaining the scholarships paid to them.
Fourth-year dentistry student Maraie Abu Dubail said the Saudi students were evacuated from Yemen by air when the unrest started in May. Since then we have been waiting for the situation in Yemen to improve but it has not. We have to have a chance to complete our studies in our own country, he said.
Abu Dubail said Saudi students in Yemen were studying various subjects including medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, engineering, arts, English language and others. Some of us have spent about six or seven years in Yemen and are about to graduate, he said.
He said though the Ministry of Higher Education had issued a no-objection decision for affected students to complete their studies at home, local universities are refusing to accept them. Whenever we approach any Saudi university they ask us to bring a clear-cut decision from the ministry endorsing our admission, not just a no-objection paper, he said.
Abu Dubail said some of the Saudi students evacuated from Yemen are married with children. We have not been paid our scholarship emoluments for about six months.
Medicine students Abdullah Al-Shahrani and Miraie Al-Qahtani and dentistry student Muhammad Asiri, who were all studying in Yemen, said though they were at a critical stage of their studies, the ministry has not issued any decision allowing them to enroll in Saudi universities.
They said fellow students from other areas, including Abha, Riyadh and Jeddah, faced the same fate. The universities prefer to accept fresh students coming out of secondary schools instead of giving us a chance to complete our studies, Asiri said.
They said students from Jordan, Syria and other Arab countries were taken back to their respective countries and given the opportunity to complete their studies there. They urged Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and the minister of higher education to intervene.
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We lost a colleague today....May he rest in peace
---------- Post added at 12:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:04 PM ----------
Saudi medical student killed in Sanaa shooting - Arab News
