8 Yemeni pilgrims dead in traffic accident

MECCA, April 13 (YPA) – At least eight Yemenis were killed in a new traffic accident in Saudi Arabia, days after a similar massacre in which Yemeni pilgrims lost their lives.

on Wednesday, Saudi media said that eight Yemenis from the Mawiyah region, east of Taiz Governorate, died and another was seriously injured, as a result of a traffic accident on the road between Mecca and Medina.

It added that the accident took place after the victims performed Umrah and were driving their car to the city.

The horrific accident comes less than two weeks after the death and injury of a number of Yemenis in a road transport bus collision at Aqaba Shaar Bridge, north of Asir, southern Saudi Arabia.

E.M