Moments of terror from the "Washington sniper" as told by the Kuwaiti diplomat's son
Student Rashid Al-Amiri and his sister Rahaf lived through the horror moments of their father, Counselor at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington, Mohammed Rashid Al-Amiri, after a sniper shot his car.
The horror story told by "Al-Rai" newspaper began at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, while Counselor al-Amiri was looking out the window of his car at the school gate near the Kuwaiti embassy in Washington with a number of parents waiting to hear the bell sounding for their children to leave until the sniper fired, who He died by suicide, indiscriminate bullets in the vicinity of the school, hitting a Burashed car from all directions, and the intense shooting continued amid a state of great fear and thoughts that were running through Al-Amiri's mind about the safety of his two sons Rashid and Rahaf.
While the moments of al-Amiri's reunion with his sons after the shooting were touching and filled with tears of joy mixed with a mixture of fear and shock, the police and the media in Washington expressed their admiration for the courage of the diplomat, Muhammad al-Amiri, who managed to drive his car towards a safe place despite the intensity of the shooting. For the student Rashid, who was not affected and tried to go towards his father's car despite the difficult moments that everyone lived and the treacherous sniper bullets.
And the shooting turned into a demonstration of love that overwhelmed Al-Amiri and his family, as contacts flooded him, in addition to the great interaction from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by Foreign Minister Dr. Ahmed Al-Nasser, who was following the details up-to-date.
Rashid's courage
While the hail of bullets was smashing the windows of Al-Amiri’s car, his son Rashid was standing in front of the school watching the glass fly at a moment when the passers-by disappeared amid the crying and screaming of everyone, and his eyes did not stop watching the progress to his father’s car under the screams of his teachers who insisted on him to get away from the place, until His father's car drove towards the embassy, and Rashid retreated to the school after feeling reassured that he was fine.
In an interview with an American channel, the student Rashid Muhammad Al-Amiri (17 years) recounted what happened: “I was inside the school and I heard the sound of shooting and I went to the back exit where my father was sitting in his car, and in the meantime the teachers asked me not to go, but my father’s safety was My first concern, especially since bullets rained down on the car and its windows were flying, and the school staff asked me again to leave the place, and my mind did not calm down until I saw my father’s car moving, so I realized that he was alive, so I was reassured and went back to school.”
As for Rahaf (14 years), she was with her teacher in the classroom at the moment of the shooting, as her teacher closed the classroom door and asked all the students to sit down and turn off their mobile phones so that the sniper would not reach them in order to preserve their safety, because in these moments no one knew where he was Inside a mother outside the school, Rahaf stayed with her classmates for long hours until the danger passed and the authorities finished securing the place, taking the evidence of witnesses, and the teacher's brave behavior was appreciated by everyone despite the difficult situation and succeeded in maintaining the safety of the students.
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