Israel begins burying victims of French shooting attack

AFP , Wednesday 21 Mar 2012

Three Israeli children and a teacher killed in France on Monday are buried in Jerusalem, where 1,000 mourners are present

The funerals for three French-Israeli children and a teacher who were gunned down at a Jewish school in France on Monday, got under way in Jerusalem Wednesday morning, an AFP correspondent said.

Around 1,000 mourners, could be seen at the sprawling Givat Shaul cemetery on the western outskirts of Jerusalem as the four bodies were carried to the gravesite.

A second attack took place by the alleged gunmen claiming responsibility to Monday's shooting. Claiming affiliation to al-Qaeda, he caused the injury of three policemen in Wednesday's attack.  

 

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