Bus crash kills 22 pilgrims in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, Jan 12 (Reuters) Twenty-two Muslim pilgrims leaving Saudi Arabia by bus were killed in a road crash near the border with the United Arab Emirates, the Saudi Press Agency reported today.

It said those killed and the 24 injured were from Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Some 2.5 million Muslims finished performing the annual haj pilgrimage earlier this month in Saudi Arabia.

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