Over 40 feared dead after a bus travelling from Mecca to Madinah collided with a diesel tanker in Saudi Arabia on early Monday. Many of them were reportedly from Hyderabad.

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy took note of the incident and directed Chief Secretary K Ramakrishna Rao and DGP B Shivadhar Reddy to urgently collect details.

Reacting to preliminary information that residents of Hyderabad were also among those involved, the Chief Minister has directed the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police to obtain full details.

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi speaking to ANI said, he had contacted two Hyderabad-based travel agencies and shared passengers' details with the Indian Embassy in Riyadh.

The Chief Minister has instructed officials from the Ministry of External Af

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