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Some 8 pilgrims died in a coach crash upon returning back to Kuwait
Saudi Arabia, Local, 3/2/2002
Some 8 pilgrims of different nationalities died and other 33 wounded on Thursday morning in a Kuwaiti coach collision carrying pilgrims upon their return back from Mecca to Kuwait after performing al-Haj rituals.
The Saudi daily Okaz said that the coach which was carrying the pilgrims deviated because of the rainfall, 60 kilometers to the north of al-Riyadh, noting the victims are four Iranians, three Egyptians and one from Bangladesh.
On February 13 some 40 pilgrims most of them are Pakistani died in a coach crash at the border point of al-Batehaa to the east of Saudi Arabia.
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