Israel begins burying victims of French shooting attack

ISRAEL: The funerals for three French-Israeli children and a teacher who were gunned down at a Jewish school in France got under way in Jerusalem on Wednesday, an AFP correspondent said.

At least 2,000 mourners could be seen at the sprawling Givat Shaul cemetery on the western outskirts of Jerusalem, standing around the four bodies.

The remains of the teacher and his two young sons were wrapped in a white prayer shawl, while that of the seven-year-old girl was wrapped in a blue shroud embroidered with gold.

The bodies of 30-year-old Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his sons Arieh, 5, and Gabriel, 4, and seven-year-old Miriam Monsonego arrived in Israel earlier on Wednesday, two days after after they were gunned down outside a Jewish school in southern France. AFP