ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: Forty pilgrims, including 37 Pakistanis, travelling by bus from the United Arab Emirates to Makkah for Haj, were killed on Wednesday in a road accident in eastern Saudi Arabia.

The names of the deceased Pakistanis are: Syed Ibrar Hussain, Jabir Ghulam, Mehboob Sultan Mohammad, Mohammad Sarfraz Ghulam, Safdar Khan Din, Ziaullah Gul Mohammad, Abdul Majeed Ali, Mohammad Naseem Akhtar, Mohammad Ishaq Assi, Abdur Rasheed Akbar, Mohammad Saddique Ghulam, Mohammad Rafique Fatah, Syed Mudassar Hussain, Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, Asmatullah, Mohammad Ramzan, Mohammad Afzal, Mohammad Ashraf, Abdul Ghaffar Abid, Mohammad Imtiaz Mukhtar, Mohammad Akram Chaudhry, Rab Nawaz Khan, Ghulam Yaseen Mohammad, Mursaleen Khan Jumma, Mohammad Shafait Ghulam, Mohammad Sajjad Shaikh, Ghulam Abbas, Ghulam Mohammad, Mukhtar Ahmad Nadeem, Tariq Mehmood Qamar, Abdus Samad, Abdul Qayyum, Muzaffar Hussain Barkat, Riaz Ahmad, Mohammad Ramazan Wali, Mohammad Quresh Ameer and Syed Ameen Khan.

The injured were admitted to Shah Fahd Hospital in Alhafoof city of Saudi Arabia where their condition is stated to be satisfactory.—APP