India Mourns: 40+ Pilgrims Killed in Saudi Bus-Tanker Inferno
New Delhi, November 17, 2025 – A devastating bus-tanker collision in Saudi Arabia has plunged India into profound mourning, with over 40 pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh feared dead in a fiery inferno that has shattered families and communities back home. The accident, which occurred at 4:30 AM local time (7:00 AM IST) on November 16 on the Medina-Taif highway, involved a bus carrying 52 Umrah devotees from Azamgarh and Jaunpur districts crashing into a fuel tanker