35 foreigners dead as bus crashes with excavator in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH: Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus collided with another heavy vehicle near the Muslim holy city of Medina, Saudi state media said on Thursday. 

The accident on Wednesday involved a collision between "a private chartered bus with a heavy vehicle (loader)" near the western Saudi Arabian city, a spokesman for Medina police said, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.

Madinah Police and local Saudi authorities are at the spot to take stock of the situation there. The injured have been rushed to a nearby hospital and are being attended by doctors. Four others injured in the accident are said to be critical at the moment.  The police added that there were citizens of several Arab and Asian countries inside the bus.