CAIRO – 4 December 2020: Egypt’s Foreign Ministry affirmed, Monday that it is following up through its consulate in Riyadh the investigations into the killing of Egyptian national Hani Abdel Tawab Saad.
The body of the 35-year-old Egyptian teacher, who was killed in Saudi Arabia late December, arrived home on Sunday.
A statement by the Foreign Ministry said the consulate, after completing all procedures for the transfer of Abdel Tawwab's body back home, continues to coordinate with the Labor Representation Office in Riyadh to obtain all his rights and any compensations for his family according to Saudi law.
The Foreign Ministry expressed its condolences to Abdel Tawab's family and expressed confidence in the Saudi judicial system.
According to a previous statement issued by the Ministry of Manpower, Abdel Tawab was working as an English teacher in one of the privet schools in Sulayyil city in Saudi Arabia. He is 35 years old, based in the country along with a wife and two children.
The Initial results of the investigations revealed that one of the students argued with the teacher over his grades and at the end of the school day, he waited for him along with his older brother in the street where they fought with the teacher again, except that in that time, the 13-year-old student shoot his teacher with a gun.
Abdel Tawab was hospitalized; however, he shortly died due to the sever injury.
The boy and his older brother were arrested by Saudi authorities and the investigations are still on going.
The privet school manger pledged to give Abdel Tawab’s family all of his dues, including his last month’s salary and end-of-service bonus. He also pledged to pay the teacher's salaries for the rest of the current school year to his family as an appreciation gesture to his efforts.
The manger also will be paying the expanses of shipping Abdel Tawab’s body to his home town in Fayoum governorate in Egypt.
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