Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it is following up on the road accident in Saudi Arabia that resulted in the killing and injury of 16 Egyptian citizens. 

According to the foreign ministry’s statement, a group of Egyptian citizens were on their way to perform Umrah pilgrimage in a highway in the city of Tabouk when their bus flipped over killing a number of Egyptian nationals and injuring others

The foreign ministry stated that the Egyptian consulate in Jeddah is following up on the accident and cooperating with the Saudi authorities in order to transfer back the bodies of the victims to Egypt in the nearest time possible.