Saudi Gazette report

JEDDAH — Eight people died and 43 others were injured in a bus accident in Madinah on Friday.

The Director General of the Red Crescent Authority branch in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah Ahmed Al-Zahrani said the Red Crescent operations room in the region (997) received a notification at 06:14 Friday morning, stating that a bus overturned on the immigration highway at km 140.

“Immediately, the latest RTA vehicles were directed to the Multiple Injury Bus (Twaiq), and the first team arrived at 06:24.”

Twenty ambulance teams from within the two regions and 6 teams from Makkah Al-Mukarramah region, with a total of 26 teams, and 6 health affairs teams led by the field command, the director of health affairs, the assistant for emergency affairs and the follow-up to the director of command and control participated.