from P A Hameed Padubidri
Daijiworld Media Network – KSA (GA)

Dammam, Feb 26: A fatal road accident, occurred on Thursday February 26 morning between 4-5 am (Indian time around 7-7.30 am) on Riaydh-Dammam Highway at Huraira, which is around 100 kms away from Dammam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, claimed the two lives including that of a Mangalorean.

The deceased Mangalorean has been identified as Kaiser Bawa (33). Muhammad Kalander, a Mangalorean and a friend of Kaiser Bawa, was who was driving the ill-fated car, was seriously wounded with multiple injuries on his head and other parts of the body and was admitted in Al-Mana Hospital in Khobar. One Muttu, a resident of Bellary in Karnataka too sustained injuries in the accident.

It is informed to Daijiworld from the reliable sources that the victms were on their way to Dammam from Riyadh. They started from Riyadh late in the night on Wednesday February 25. When Daijiworld correspondent, P.A.Hameed contacted Khader Emirates and Anwar Suralpady, who rushed to the spot of the accident and hospital where the deadbody is now kept,  they said that the cause of the accident was not clear. But, it is informed that while the car was playing on the highway it rammed into a trailer which has just overturned on the road, after its driver lost control over it.

Sources also said that there was poor visibility owing to the sandstrom. The driver of the trailer too was killed on the spot after it turned turtle. It is reported that the road was not clearly visible due to the sandstorm. The bodies of the deceased have now been kept in the mortuary of Prince Sultan Hospital, situated at short distance from the accdient spot at Hurairah, awaiting for the procedural  formalities.

Kaiser Bawa is son of Moidin Bawa of Ladyhill in Mangalore. He had been in the Kigndom since about two years. He was earlier in Jeddah and recently came to Jubail. He is survied by his wife and two children, parents, close relatives and friends. 

Zakariya Jokatte (Anabeeb) Jubail, Khader Emirates, Anwar Suralpady, Hameed Suralpady and other Mangaloreans are in the hospital and taking initiative in getting all the formalities and other procedures done.