Pall of gloom descends on Saudi Arabia accident victim's native place in Karnataka

HUBBALLI (KARNATAKA): (Nov 18) Grief engulfed the residence of 55-year-old Abdul Ghani Shirahatti here after his family received news of his death in a bus accident in Saudi Arabia's Madina, where he had travelled to perform the Umrah pilgrimage.

According to his family, Ghani, who was employed as a driver at a hotel in Dubai, had proceeded to Saudi Arabia on November 9 for the pilgrimage.

"My uncle has been working in Dubai for the past twenty years. He called me on November 16. He had been wanting to go and perform the Umrah pilgrimage, and unfortunately this incident happened. We came to know about his death on Monday afternoon. One of his friends, based in Hyderabad, informed us about it as his family had also gone for the pilgrimage," Ghani's nephew Parvez told PTI Videos.