Forty-five Indian pilgrims have been killed after the bus they were travelling in caught fire in an accident near Medina in Saudi Arabia, the police commissioner of India’s Hyderabad city has said.
The bus had 46 passengers, said VC Sajjanar in a news conference, adding that one man who survived the accident had been admitted to an intensive care unit in a local hospital.
Most of the victims are from Hyderabad, which is in southern Telangana state.
The pilgrims were travelling from the Islamic holy city of Mecca to Medina when the accident…