Saudi Arabia: teacher shoots dead six colleagues

A teacher has killed at least six people at an education department building in southern Saudi Arabia, state media reports.

Two other people were reportedly injured during the attack in the Jazan province, near the border with Yemen.

Al Riyadh TV reported that the suspected shooter is in custody but offered no details of a possible motive. An image posted on its Twitter account shows ambulances gathered outside the scene of the shooting.

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"Mass shootings are rare in the kingdom," the Associated Press reports from the capital Riyadh.

The country has, however, suffered a spate of attacks by Islamic State. The terrorist group was behind a number of suicide bombing targeting Shia mosques last year which left scores dead.

The Jazan province has also been the target of missile attacks from across the border following Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen last year.