JEDDAH, 7 June 2003 — A Pakistani driver has reportedly fled the Kingdom after allegedly killing three Saudis, including two girls, in a road accident in Makkah.
Relatives of the dead are furious that the Saudi authorities have apparently allowed the culprit to get out of the Kingdom before his case was settled by the court.
Speaking to Okaz daily, the relatives urged the relevant authorities to bring the alleged culprit to justice by contacting the Pakistani government.
The paper identified the Pakistani driver only as Nayeem and the accident victims as Naif, Nida and Ihda.
The accident took place as Nayeem, who was driving a tipper, ran over Naif’s car on the ring road in Makkah. Nayeem fled from the scene of the accident in which the young man and two girls died instantly.
The paper said that April 7, when the accident took place, was a black day for the family of Khaled Abdul Qader Omar Ali, who lived on the Iskan Street in Makkah. Turki, the brother of Naif and his two sisters, said the accident had “turned our home into a graveyard.”
Turki, the only son in the family who travels extensively in the Gulf and East Asia on business trips, said the accident occurred while he was in Makkah on holiday.
“The news came like a thunderbolt,” he said. “I could not control my grief.”
Naif graduated from King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah.
Dr. Muhammad Shoaib Akbar, the Pakistani consul in Jeddah, told the Arabic daily that he advised the family to present an official application to the consulate to help capture the culprit or send all the papers related to the case to the Saudi Embassy in Islamabad.
