The funeral was attended by the Algerian consulate general officials, the girl's stepfather and a large number of worshippers. The burial comes after a post mortem report showed that the girl was not raped.

The post-mortem result refutes reports carried by some local Arabic newspapers that the girl was gang raped before falling from the 16th floor of the hotel where she was staying - Dar Al-Muhajireen in the city's Gaza district - on to the roof of an adjacent building.

News of the girl's death immediately sparked angry protests by Algerian Muslim pilgrims who shut down the main road near the hotel and demanded to see the Algerian ambassador.

The Algerian newspaper Echorouk attacked the Saudi press for focusing on a possible romantic relationship between the girl and one of the Yemeni suspects. The paper went on to quote Al-Khateeb's biological father accusing the Saudi press of destroying her reputation in order to save face for Saudi Arabia. He also called her stepfather a "good man" who "knows how to look after his daughter."