At least six people were killed and two were wounded today after an attacker opened fire at an education department building in southern Saudi Arabia, according to an Al Jazeera report quoting a top Saudi official and state media.

Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman General Mansour Turki said that authorities were treating the attack in the kingdom’s Jizan province as criminal, according to a Reuters news agency report.

State TV said the attacker was a teacher who opened fire on colleagues.

It posted a still photograph that showed ambulances gathered outside the building where the shooting took place.