Sanaa massacre

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The Sanaa massacre was a school massacre that occurred in Sanaa, Yemen, on March 30, 1997. Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri, 48, attacked hundreds of pupils at two schools, killing six children and two adults with an assault rifle. Naziri, whose five children attended the Tala'i school, alleged that one of his daughters had been raped by the school administrator. No evidence was found of this. This incident however is strikingly different to the school shootings in North America and the U.K.

Naziri was sentenced to death the next day and executed on April 5.

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