- Six expatriate workers of different nationalities died in a road accident on the Riyadh-Dammam Highway on Monday, police said here Friday.
A Sri Lankan with three other expatriates working in the Eastern Province died at the site.
Among the dead were Lucent Christoper De Silva, 49, Sri Lankan, who was working for Holiday Inn Hotel in Alkhobar in the Eastern province as its food and beverage manager for the past 18 months.
The others who died in the accident were Shariful Islam, chief housekeeper of the hotel (Bangladeshi); its Executive Chef Ahmed Ibrahim Al Mahtadi (Jordanian); and its Sous Chef Osam Kamil Sukoor (Jordanian).
According to Vinod C. Menon, manager training and development at the hotel, the tragedy occurred 150 km from Riyadh on the highway to Dammam. Another car coming from the opposite direction had run off its lane following a tire blowout resulting in a head-on collision.
Two people traveling in the other car — a Pakistani and a Yemeni — also died in the accident. All six bodies are currently at a morgue in King Fahd Hospital in Al-Ahsa, some 200 km from the Saudi capital.
