RIYADH: Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Salman has issued a directive for the quick and proper treatment of pilgrims who on Saturday suffered injuries in a road accident on the Makkah-Madinah highway.
At least 19 pilgrims died and 22 were injured, all of them Egyptians, early on Saturday when a bus carrying them to Makkah for Umrah overturned midway.
The king ordered that optimum support be provided to those injured and to facilitate the visit of their family members to attend to them in the hospital.
The king issued the directive through his statement, which has been confirmed by Ahmad Qattan, Saudi ambassador to Egypt.
Qattan said he was coordinating at the highest level with the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and that his office was fully ready to grant visas to the relatives of the injured and dead, and to inquire about the status of their relatives. All the injured are being treated in Madinah. The bodies were transferred to mortuaries of various hospitals.
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