At Least 45 People Die After Bus Collides with Diesel Tanker and Explodes. 7 Members of Same Family Were on Board

At least 45 people are dead and another person is injured after a bus carrying Indian pilgrims collided with a diesel tanker ...

At least 45 dead after bus smashes into diesel tanker & erupts into flames with passengers trapped inside

AT least 45 people have been killed after a bus carrying pilgrims tragically crashed into a diesel tanker in Saudi Arabia.

Mecca–Medina bus tragedy: Govt releases list of 45 passengers; Hyderabad families await updates

A devastating bus crash in Saudi Arabia has left more than 40 Indian Umrah pilgrims from Hyderabad dead. The incident ...

Dozens of Indian pilgrims killed in bus accident in Saudi Arabia

Forty-five Indian pilgrims have been killed after the bus they were travelling in caught fire in an accident near Medina in ...
Pakistan Today

42 Umrah pilgrims feared dead in Mecca–Madinah bus crash

KARACHI: At least 42 Indian Umrah pilgrims from Hyderabad are feared dead after a passenger bus travelling from Mecca to ...
WBAL

Bus near Saudi holy city of Mecca crashes, killing 35 people

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities in Saudi Arabia say 35 pilgrims have been killed in a bus crash near the Muslim holy city of Mecca. The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported Thursday ...
Washington Examiner

Saudi overhaul reshapes Islam’s holiest city Mecca

Decades ago, this was a low-built city of centuries-old neighborhoods. Over the years, it saw piecemeal renewal projects. But in the mid-2000s, the kingdom launched its most ambitious overhaul ever ...
Los Angeles Times

For residents of Mecca, Islam’s holiest sites are home, not just a pilgrimage site

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing up. Raised in Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, Abdu remembers roller skating with friends near the ...
Reuters

Muslim pilgrims leave Mecca city at start of haj

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - The annual haj pilgrimage began in Mecca on Monday when hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims put on white clothes, packed their bags and left for a tented ...