By Nader Al-Onaizi

Okaz/Saudi Gazette

TABUK — A Saudi national who was killed in Jordan recently in a horrific crime that shocked the nation was buried in the northern city of Al-Qurayyat.

A large number of people attended the funeral of Abdullah Al-Sharari, who was laid to rest in Al-Okaila cemetery. The victim›s body arrived by land through Al-Hudaitha entry point on the Kingdom›s border with Jordan.

The body of Al-Sharari, who was reported missing for many days in Jordan, was found in a grave in a desert area in Al-Zarqa, east of the Jordanian capital city Amman.

It was revealed that two Jordanians, who were wanted by the police for previous crimes, killed Al-Sharari, stole his money and fled with his car. Jordanian police later discovered the car with the two criminals inside after they got involved in an accident.

The son of the victim confirmed through social media that the two Jordanian criminals had killed his father.

The Saudi Embassy in Jordan was coordinating with the local authorities on the investigation. They later brought the family of the victim to Jordan to identify the body.

Jordanian officials told their Saudi counterparts that the accident, which involved a car with a Jordanian plate and another with a Saudi plate, solved the mystery behind the missing Saudi. Police revealed that the two people who were inside the car were wanted criminals. They were transferred to a hospital for treatment under heavy security escort after investigating officers found out that the car they were traveling in was stolen.

Police later identified the actual owner of the car and matched it with the missing person report.

During investigations, the two criminals confessed to police that they had killed the car owner and stole his car. They said they buried the body of the victim in a desert area. Later the criminals led the police to the location of the body.

Speaking to Okaz/Saudi Gazette, the son of the victim, Khaled, said his father worked transporting passengers between Saudi Arabia and Jordan. He was making a living and at the same time taking the opportunity to visit his relatives who are Jordanian nationals. “On the day of the accident, a Saudi man and his wife hired my father to drive them to Amman for the purpose of visiting a hospital. Then there was no news of him and his whereabouts was unknown to us. He remained totally cut off and we alerted the Jordanian authorities over his disappearance,» Khaled said.

«Five days later, we received a phone call from the Jordanian police telling us that my father’s car was involved in an accident and there were two Jordanians inside the car. They told me that one of them was wearing a police uniform, which signaled that they might have posed as police officers and stole my father›s car,» he said.

During questioning, the criminals began putting the blame on each other until they finally confessed to the murder, Khaled said.

“We found the body of my father buried in a desert area with his skull smashed,” he added.

This incident brought to memory a similar murder that took place seven years ago in Jordan when two Saudis who were resting on the side of the road were robbed of their car after one of them was killed. One of the Saudis was sleeping outside the car and the other inside. The criminal who sneaked in stabbed the Saudi who slept outside, injuring him critically. Then he forced the other Saudi man out of the car and escaped with it. The stab victim died shortly after the car was stolen.