4 NUNS, 12 OTHERS KILLED IN RETIREMENT HOME

Gunmen in southern Yemen on Friday stormed a retirement home run by a charity established by Mother Teresa, killing 16 people, including four Catholic nuns, officials and witnesses said.

The killing spree began with two gunmen who approached the exterior of the home for the elderly in Aden. Meanwhile, four others entered the building on the pretext they wanted to visit their mothers, according to the charity, Yemeni security officials and witnesses. The gunmen moved from room to room, handcuffing the victims before shooting them in the head. A nun who was rescued by locals said she hid inside a fridge in a storeroom after hearing a Yemeni guard shouting, “Run, run.”

Khaled Haidar told the Associated Press he counted 16 bodies, including that of his brother, Radwan. Sunita Kumar, a spokeswoman for the Missionaries of Charity in the Indian city of Kolkata, said two of the killed nuns were from Rwanda and the other two were from India and Kenya.