The Department of Education in Madinah has relocated a girls school in a village after a number of its students complained a jinn was haunting the premises, Al-Watan reported on Wednesday.
The department made its decision based on the recommendations of a special committee established to investigate the case in Al-Shalayel, 70 km away from the holy city.
Omar Barnawi, the department's spokesman, said the committee listened to a number of students, teachers and workers.
He said the department's director Nasser Al-Abdul Kareem had ordered the establishment of the committee to investigate the claims and find solutions that would reassure the girls and their families.
A source close to the school said in May a number of students did not attend classes.
The source said a number of girls had fainted or started having seizures, prompting parents to stop them from going to school.
“We had to suspend the school for a few days,” Barnawi said at the time. He said the school tried to control the situation before contacting the directorate but the students were terrified and would not return to school.
The source said the principal informed the department about the incident to find a solution but when the department did not move quickly, she called in a sheikh to recite Qur'an in the school.
He said the villagers started sending tweets using a particular hashtag asking the department to shift the school to another place.
The source said one of the girls claimed she saw an old man sitting in the school's courtyard but he disappeared in thin air when she got closer.
A cleaner said he entered the school one night to clean the classrooms and saw a number of children playing football. He said when he approached them they disappeared.
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