JEDDAH, 10 — Eleven people were killed and eight others injured in two separate accidents in southern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, press reports said yesterday.
In the first accident, a woman and her four sons and three daughters were killed when their car collided with another car that crossed the road from another direction at high speed.
The accident occurred at Harjah village near Janoub Dhahran on Khamis Mushayt-Najran Road, Al-Watan reported.
Eyewitnesses said seven of the victims died on the spot, while a small boy died on way to hospital. A policeman who drove the other car escaped with minor injuries.
The mother and children were traveling to Tihama Asir to join the head of the family who had gone there to attend a relative’s funeral.
Rescue workers took more than one-and-a-half hours to pull out the bodies from the mangled remains of the car.
Three people were killed and seven others injured in the second accident, which involved three cars at Shafsan on the Southern Road linking Taif with the Southern Region. The three died at King Faisal Hospital in Taif.
