Relatives of some of the 45 Indian pilgrims killed when a diesel tanker crashed into a bus in Saudi Arabia are travelling to the kingdom to pay their final respects before burial. Indian officials said family members were travelling to Madinah from their hometown of Hyderabad in southern India after the fatal accident. Mohammad Munir Ahmed lost 18 members of his family in the crash. Speaking to The National from Hyderabad, he said: “There is no end to our sadness, no end to the pain we are feeling. There are really no words.”

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