Four killed as car skids off cliff

JEDDAH, 20 December — A helicopter was called in to retrieve four dead bodies from a car which fell from an 800-meter cliff in Taif on Tuesday. The fifth passenger in the ill-fated car survived with serious injuries, Al-Madinah reported yesterday. The car was going from Taif to Makkah. Eyewitnesses said the speeding car flew over the railings on the side of the road and skidded down the steep valley.