At least seventeen people, including four Catholic
nuns, were killed on Friday, March when armed men attacked a
care home for the elderly run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of
Charity.
The group of gunmen raided
the home for the elderly located in the Sheik Osman district of Aden.
According to eyewitness reports, two gunmen encircled the facility while
at least four raided the building housing over 80 patients.
The gunmen
then proceeded to separate four nuns at gunpoint before opening fire on
them. Two of the four slaughtered nuns were Rwanda, one from India and
another from Kenya. One nun managed to survive the attack by hiding
inside a refrigerator.
After killing
the nuns, the gunmen then moved from room to room handcuffing the
patients and shooting them in the heads. Six Ethiopians, a Yemeni cook
and Yemeni guards were also
killed.
The dead and injured were
taken to the city’s state-run Republican hospital and a health centre
run by Medecins Sans Frontieres. A doctor at the Republican hospital
told the media that some of the dead had arrived with their hands tied
behind their backs. Most had been shot in the head.
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