AHSA, 15 February — The nine people injured in the tragic accident that claimed 40 lives on Wednesday were showing signs of recovery, but two were still on the critical list, hospital authorities revealed.
The accident occurred when the bus with more than 60 pilgrims from the United Arab Emirates, collided head-on with a truck carrying heavy material. Thirty-seven Pakistanis were among the 40 pilgrims killed.
Meanwhile, authorities have released the names of the injured in the accident. According to the administrator of King Fahd Hospital here, the nine injured were stable and showing signs of improvement. However, two of them continue to be on the critical list.
Abdul Rahman Al Dosari, a police officer at the Salwa Police Station which is investigating the case, said the Dubai-based Al Shammar Haj contractor was transporting pilgrims. The Dubai-registered bus belonged to Ibn Al Bahar Rent-a-Car.
According to a source in Al-Ain, most of the pilgrims were from the Pakistani cities of Multan, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The source said that the UAE Ministry of Defense sponsored the pilgrimage of the victims and they were all working as technicians in the ministry. Identification of the dead has been delayed because the charred bodies are beyond recognition and almost all their documents have perished in the fire which had engulfed the vehicles after the collision.
The UAE government is trying to contact the kins of the victims of the accident in Pakistan and the UAE. Arrangements are being made to transport the bodies to UAE or Pakistan.
Following are the names of the injured admitted at the King Fahd Hospital: Muhammad Arif, 41, Khalid Musa, 41, Sardar Khan Khulam, 40, Muhammad Amin, 50, Naseer Ahmad, 40, Amanat Ali, 38, Khaleel Ahmad 29, Mansoor Ali, 46, and Muhammad Latif Khan, 44.
The following is the list of Pakistanis who died in the accident. The list was provided by the Pakistan Consulate in Jeddah:
Muhammad Sarfraz (Wah Cantt); Safdar Khan Din (Talagang); Ziaullah Gul Muhammad (Mianwali); Abdul Majeed Ali Muhammad (Jhang City); Muhammad Naseem Akhtar (Rawalpindi); Muhammad Ishaq (address being traced); Abdul Rashid (Rawalpindi); Muhammad Siddique s/o Ghulam Farid (Jhang City); Muhammad Rafiq Fateh Muhammad (Rahim Yar Khan); Muhammad Hassan (Pind Dadar Khan); Chaudhry Muhammad Ahsan (Rawalpindi); Syed Muddasar Hussain (Faisalabad); Ghulam Mustafa Fazal (Gujrat); Amanatullah (Sargodha); Muhammad Ramzan Yusuf (Sargodha); Muhammad Afzal (Khushab); Muhammad Ashraf s/o Abdul Ghani (Sargodha); Abdul Ghaffar Abid (Toba Tek Singh); Muhammad Imtiaz (Sahiwal); Muhammad Akram Siddique (Faisalabad); Rabnawaz Khan s/o Atta Muhammad (Sargodha); Mussallam Khan Khattak (Attock); Ghulam Yasin Amir Muhammad (Sahiwal); Muhammad Sheriar s/o Ghulam Asghar (Rawalpindi); Muhammad Sajjad Sher (Sawabi); Ghulam Abbas s/o Ghulam Muhammad (Toba Tek Singh); Mukhtar Ahmed Nadeem (Bahawalnagar); Tariq Mahmood Qamar (Sargodha); Abdul Samad Abdul Qayyum (Kohat); Muzaffar Hussain (Sialkot); Muhammad Riaz s/o Abdul Ghafoor (Chakwal); Muhammad Ramzan Wali (Toba Tek Singh); Muhammad Quereshi s/o Amir Kamal (Sawabi); Mehmoob Sultan (Mandi Bahauddin); Syed Ibrar Hussain (Address being traced); Jabbar Ghulam Bin Ghulam (Address being traced); Syed Ameen Khan (Address being traced).
