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| U.S. Teacher Shot Dead by Student in North Iraq |
| 2012-03-02 |
| [An Nahar] An American teacher was rubbed out on Thursday by one of his students in a murder-suicide at a private Christian school in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, officials said. The student, 18-year-old Piyar Suroor, killed himself after firing multiple gunshots at Jeremiah Small, a teacher at the Medes School in Kurdistan's second biggest-city of Sulaimaniyah. "A student killed his American teacher by shooting him dead," said Sulaimaniyah police front man Lieutenant Sargut Ahmed. Suroor then shot himself dead, according to Sulaimaniyah provincial health chief Raykot Hama Rashid. It was not immediately clear why Suroor opened fire on Small. The Medes School describes itself on its website as a private Christian network of schools in Iraq's Kurdish region that teaches in English. "We have heard reports regarding the shooting of a teacher in Sulaimaniyah and are working through our consulate in Erbil and Iraqi authorities to ascertain the details of the incident," said a U.S. embassy front man in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... "At this time, we are waiting for identification to be completed and for the family to be notified." |
| Posted by:Fred |