“A 17 year old boy shot his teacher with an unlicensed pistol and injured his lower right hip. The teacher was rushed to the Armed Forces Hospital in the city,” spokesman of Asir police Col. Abdullah Al-Qarni told Arab News on Monday. The student told police that he shot the teacher because he asked him to obtain the school principal’s permission to enter the classroom for being late for class. In the meantime, school teachers demanded a strong presence of guards in school buildings as reports of school shootings were on the increase.