India bringing back bodies of 11 workers killed in Saudi city

New Delhi, July 13: The Indian Consulate in Jeddah is making arrangements to bring back the bodies of 11 Indian workers killed in a fire in a house in Saudi Arabia’s jran city, the Ministry of Exterl Affairs said on Thursday. Of the 11, four were from Uttar Pradesh, three from Kerala and one each from Bihar, Tamil du and Punjab, MEA spokesperson Gopal Baglay said at his weekly media briefing here.

While Tabrej Khan, Ateeq Ahmad, Waseem Akram, Mohammad Waseem Azizur Rahman and Vakeel Ahmad hailed from Uttar Pradesh, Kamalapan Sathyan, Baiju Raghavan and Sreejith Kottassseri were from Kerala, Gauri Shankar Gupta was from Bihar, Morokandan Kaliyan from Tamil du and Paras Kumar Subedar from Punjab, he said. All of them were employees of Emaar EA Motahedon Trading and Contracting Company. (IANS)