Mother Teresa's charity expresses shock over the killing of 4 of its nuns in Yemen
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Mother Teresa's charity expresses shock over the killing of 4 of its nuns in Yemen
- Title: Mother Teresa's charity expresses shock over the killing of 4 of its nuns in Yemen
- Date: 4th March 2016
- Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (MARCH 4, 2016) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI - NO ACCESS BBC) SUNITA KUMAR, SPOKESPERSON OF MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY, SITTING AND LOOKING AT HER PHONE CLOSE OF KUMAR CLOSE OF THE PHONE (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON OF MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY, SUNITA KUMAR, SAYING: "This news is really shocking. The details that I get is that it happened at 8.30 in the morning local time while the sisters were serving breakfast. There were five sisters, one of them is a superior, who wasn't located by the gunmen, but the other four were serving at the same time and they were shot." KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA (FILE) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI - NO ACCESS BBC) EXTERIOR OF THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY BOARD READING (English) 'MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY, MOTHER'S HOUSE' VARIOUS OF STATUE OF VIRGIN MARY VEHICLES ON ROAD
- Embargoed: 18th March 2016 19:51
- Keywords: Missionaries of Charity Mother Theresa nuns attack Yemen
- Location: NEW DELHI / KOLKATA, INDIA
- City: NEW DELHI / KOLKATA, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Insurgencies
- Reuters ID: LVA00147IN8EF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
Mother Teresa's Indian charity said on Friday (March 4) it was shocked by the killing of four of its nuns in the Yemeni port of Aden.
Gunmen attacked an old people's home in Aden on Friday, killing at least 15 people, including four nuns, local officials and medical sources said.
The four attackers told a guard they were on a visit to their mother, then stormed into the home and opened fire with rifles, an official said. As well as the nuns, the dead included two Yemeni women staff, eight elderly residents and a guard.
The motive of the gunmen was not immediately known. They fled after the attack, the official said.
The spokeswoman for the Missionaries of Charity religious order which Mother Teresa founded, said four nuns were killed but one survived the massacre.
"This news is really shocking. The details that I get is that it happened at 8.30 in the morning local time while the sisters were serving breakfast. There were five sisters, one of them is a superior, who wasn't located by the gunmen, but the other four were serving at the same time and they were shot," said Sunita Kumar.
This is not the first time Missionaries of Charity nuns were targeted. They also came under attack in Yemen in 1998, when gunmen killed three nuns in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida.
Missionaries of Charity are a Roman Catholic religious order established in 1950 by Mother Teresa. It consists of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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