35 dead in the collision between a coach and a construction machine

Thirty-five foreign nationals were killed and four others wounded in a collision between a bus and a construction vehicle on Wednesday night in Medina, western Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia's official SPA agency quoted police as saying. .

They are Arab and Asian nationals who were on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to local press.

In April 2018, four British pilgrims perished and 12 were injured when the bus carrying them collided with a tanker truck in Saudi Arabia. The accident took place near the city of Al-Khalas, in the west of the country, while the pilgrims were en route to Mecca, the holiest place of Islam.

In January 2017, six Britons, including a two-month-old baby, were also killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia as they rode the city of Medina after making the pilgrimage to Mecca.