Gunman kills six in attack on Saudi education ministry shooting
Six people have been killed and two injured after a gunman opened fire at an education ministry office in the south of Saudi Arabia, officials said.
Two people were wounded in the attack in the Jazan province near the Yemen border, in the remote community of Ad Dair, the BBC reports.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency did not immediately report the shooting.
State TV posted a still photograph that showed ambulances gathered outside the building where the shooting took place in Jazan province.
The shooter was arrested but the Saudis have not confirmed details of a motive. Early reports stated he was a teacher.
AFP cited local media reports the shooter was not an employee of the ministry but had some business connection to it.
Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition of countries conducting airstrikes and ground operations in neighboring Yemen in support of the deeply impoverished country's internationally recognized government. It is fighting against Iranian-backed Shiite rebels and supporters of a former president, who control the capital and other parts of the country.
Jazan, on the kingdom's southern border with Yemen, has been targeted by missiles and cross-border fire since Saudi Arabia intervened in the conflict. On Tuesday, authorities said they shot down a ballistic missile targeting the city and that a police officer in the surrounding province was killed in a separate shooting incident.
In October, two people were killed and another two were wounded when a gunman opened fire inside a bank in the city of Jazan.
