Sajaad. Image: BIRD. All rights reserved.Warning: images of a sensitive nature below.
A bereft mother has spoken out after the deadly shooting of her toddler in Saudi Arabia. Residents of Awamiya say Saudi security forces shot three-year-old Sajaad Abu Abdalla in June when his family drove to his grandparents’ home. Security forces in an armoured vehicle allegedly sprayed bullets as the car passed near the besieged town’s police station. One bullet pierced the car door and shot through Sajaad’s wrist and hip. It broke in the child’s body and he died on 9 August after two months of agony.
The voice of Sajaad’s mother cracks as she tries to articulate her loss. “I thought it was a dream,” she cries halfway through our conversation. “I didn’t expect a day would come when Sajaad would die and leave me.”
