“While we congratulate you we condole ourselves,” Prince Muhammad said, considering the officer’s martyrdom a matter of pride for his relatives and his death a loss to the nation, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday.

The martyr was buried in his hometown Sharoura in the south of the Kingdom on Wednesday.

The other officer killed in the attack, Col. Abdul Jaleel Shari Al-Otaibi, was laid to rest in Riyadh. The gunman who killed the officers has been identified as Abdullah  bin Abdul Rahman Al-Sayel, who was also involved in an attack on a police station in Qassim a month ago.