Three children and a maid were killed in a road accident on Sunday morning as the family returned home to Dubai after visiting the Liwa Festival.
Their parents and two other children survived and are being treated at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City Hospital in Abu Dhabi, a welfare group assisting the family said.
The three boys, aged 14, 12 and five, are children of Abdul Lateef and Ruksana, Indian citizens from Kerala state.
The couple and their five children were returning from the Liwa Date Festival in Abu Dhabi when the accident took place in Shahama as they were travelling on the Abu Dhabi-Dubai motorway early on Sunday.
“If you lose three children at one time, what can you do? It’s just too difficult. We can only pray,” a family friend, who volunteers with the Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre supporting the family, told The National.
The three boys will be buried in the UAE in accordance with the family’s wishes. The body of the family's maid, who was 48, will be sent home to her family in Kerala.
The two surviving children, a boy, eight, and girl, 10, are being treated for injuries in hospital, with the elder child in a critical condition, the family friend said.
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