50 pilgrims die in bus crash

Published December 15, 2001

AMMAN, Dec 14: At least 52 Egyptian pilgrims were killed when a bus carrying them back from Makkah overturned in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba on Friday, officials said.

The bus driver lost control of the vehicle as he was driving through the port taking pilgrims to a ferry bound for an Egyptian Red Sea port.

“The bus slammed into a container and caught fire,” a civil defence official in Aqaba said.

He said all 52 people on board, including the driver, were killed, some of them burnt beyond recognition.—AFP

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