The 80-year-old woman has been identified as Rahmat Bee.
Credit: Special Arrangement
Bidar: An eighty-year old woman from the city is also among the Indian Umrah pilgrims who lost their lives in a tragic bus inferno in Saudi Arabia on Monday.
The woman is identified as Rahmat Bee of Mailur CMC colony here. The Deputy Commissioner Shilpa Sharma has confirmed the report.
A total of 45 people, most of them from Hyderabad, were killed in the bus accident.
A bus carrying Umrah pilgrims had caught fire after colliding with a tanker lorry carrying diesel.
The accident took place nearly 40 kms from Madina at around 11 pm local time (1.30 am, IST).
The bus had stopped on the side of a road, and during this stoppage, an oil tanker collided with the bus, resulting in the explosion.
The bus was learnt to be on its way from Mecca to Madina.
(with inputs from agencies)