Eight killed, 43 injured in bus accident near Madinah

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24th Apr, 2022. 11:52 am
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MADINAH: At least eight people died and 43 others were injured in a bus accident on Hijra Road near Madinah Munawarra in Saudi Arabia.

The Director General of the Red Crescent Authority said the injured were rushed to hospital for medical assistance. Saudi Arabian officials have not yet released the list of the victims and their nationality.

Sources said the bus overturned because of over speeding.

On April 17, Iraqi police had announced that 11 individuals, including nine schoolteachers, were killed in a head-on accident south of Baghdad as they returned from a Ramadan feast. The authorities had cited over speeding the main cause of the accident.

A police source had said the accident occurred around midnight in Babylon province when the party returned from the Shiite holy site of Karbala.

Due to excessive speed and the second driver’s inattention, their car had crashed with a 4×4 in the other way, injuring two persons.