A Sri Lankan couple and their 8-year-old son died in a car accident
following Friday prayers on the Madinah-Riyadh highway in Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed
Masood, 44, his wife Saleema Rehmet, 42, and their son Mohammed Nasser
died on the spot when their car turned over and hit a trailer at
Anaqiyah, some 185 kilometers from Madinah, Saudi media reported.
The
car was driven by Mohammed Razick, who works at a hotel in Al-Khobar.
His wife Fathima Hafsa was also in the front seat of the car at the time
of the accident. The eldest son of the deceased couple, Mohammed
Yasser, 12, is currently being treated for injuries at King Fahd
hospital in Madinah.
According to the police report, the driver
of the ill-fated sedan fell asleep at the wheel, and the car strayed
from the main road and turned upside down when a speeding vehicle hit
the rear end of the car. Of the four people in the back seat of the
vehicle, only Yasser survived with facial injuries.
According to
Mohammed Ramzi, nephew of Razick, the three bodies have already been
transferred to a government morgue in Madinah. Formalities for burial
were being processed with the help of the Sri Lankan consulate in Jeddah
and the local police. “If everything goes well, we may be able to have
the funeral on Sunday,” Ramzi added.
Meanwhile, Naima Buhary, one
of the three survivors of a car accident that occurred in Rabigh during
the first week of Ramadan, died at King Fahd hospital in Jeddah on
Friday.
Two people, both Sri Lankans, died, and three others
were hurt in the road accident. The couple, Abdul Mohammed Buhari
Muksith, 34, and his wife Sultan Mohammed Sithara, 32, were on their way
to Rabigh from Jeddah. They were returning home after a suhoor meal.
According
to a traffic police report, Muksith fell asleep at the wheel, which led
to the car crashing into a trailer on the highway.
The couple
died on the spot. Muksith’s father Mohammed Buhary, mother Naima Buhary,
and the couple’s six-year-old nephew, who were in the back seat of the
car, survived with injuries, reports Arab News.
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Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 @ 02:56:18 LKT
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