At the Hajj House in Nampally in Hyderabad, grief hung heavy in the air on Monday (November 17, 2025) afternoon. In the open, muddy courtyard, families clutched documents, photographs and each other, waiting for any word on their loved ones who died in the tragic bus crash in Saudi Arabia earlier in the morning.
Among them was Syed from Ramnagar, trembling as he spoke, still unable to process the scale of his loss. “I told them not to go together. Not to take all the children; at least some members of the family would have survived,” he said, breaking down mid-sentence. In one night, 18 members of his family, spanning three generations, were gone.
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