Hyderabad: On November 9, when Syed Rashid waved goodbye to his family at the Hyderabad airport for the Umrah pilgrimage, he never, in his wildest dream, thought those moments would be their last living memories.

A retired railway employee residing next to the CPI(M) Marx Bhavan in Vidyanagar, 18 members from his family were travelling in that ill-fated bus that was burnt to ashes near Mufrihat, approximately 160 km from Madinah in the wee hours of Monday.

Among the dead are 65-year-old Shaik Naseeruddin, 60-year-old Akhter Begum, his 38-year-old brother and 35-year-old sister-in-law and their three children, Sirajuddin, who lived in the United States with his 40-year-old wife Sana, 40, and their three children, Amina Begum and her daughter, Shameena Begum and her son, and Rizwana Begum

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