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Saudi bus crash kills 2 Bangladeshis: official

DHAKA, July 4, 2018 (BSS) – At least two Bangladeshis were killed and over
a dozen were critically wounded as a bus carrying them in the country’s
western Jeddah city crashed this morning, Bangladeshi embassy officials in
Saudi Arabia said.

“We have so far confirmed deaths of two Bangladeshis — Md Elahi of Magura
Sadar and Mohammad Shahjahan Miah of Bahubal, Habiganj — but some 13 more
wounded compatriots are being treated at three different hospitals,” Head of
Chancery of Bangladesh Consulate General in Jeddah Mostafa Jamil Khan told
BSS.

Unconfirmed reports, however, said the casualties could be as high as 11.

Khan said consulate officials are there in the hospitals to look after the
injured and the details will be given later once the reports come from there.

It was learned that the driver of the minibus carrying Bangladeshi workers
lost his control over the steering as one of the tires of the vehicle blew
and stuck an electric pole.

BSS/MHR/SSS/1937 hrs