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35 foreigners dead in Saudi bus crash: state media
RIYADH, Oct 17, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured after a bus crashed with another heavy vehicle in western Saudi Arabia, state media said on Thursday.
The accident on Wednesday involved a collision between “a private chartered bus… with a heavy vehicle (loader), in Al-Akhal Center in Madinah area, resulting in the death of (35) and the injury of (4) of its passengers,” a spokesman for Madinah police said, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.
BSS/AFP/AU/08:10 hrs