Palestinian foreign ministry condemns Vermont shooting it says injured three students

The Palestinian foreign ministry on Sunday condemned a shooting in the U.S. state of Vermont in which it said three Palestinian students had been injured.

The ministry said in a statement that Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid, who were speaking Arabic and wearing the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh, had sustained "severe and moderate injuries" during the shooting.

The foreign ministry called on U.S. authorities to quickly hold those responsible for the shooting to account.