Seven Bangladeshis killed in Saudi road accident
Graphics: Agamir Somoy
Seven Bangladeshis, including women and children, were killed in a road accident while traveling from Medina to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The accident occurred at around 2:00 am local time on Friday.
All the victims were associated with Al Abir Cold Store Trading Company. They were from Chakaria upazila in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
According to information provided by the company’s Marketing Manager, Nuruzzaman, the deceased include the company’s storekeeper Ziaur Rahman, his two sons and his daughter.
In addition, the wife of Ilias, a forklift operator at the company, and Alam Shah, a storekeeper working in Mecca, along with his one-month-old daughter, were killed.
Following the accident, the bodies of the deceased were kept at the morgue of a government hospital in Medina. However, no detailed information was available about the cause of the accident or arrangements for sending the bodies back to Bangladesh.
The deaths of seven Bangladeshis, including several members of the same family, have cast a shadow of grief among their relatives, colleagues and expatriate Bangladeshis.
