Sixteen migrant workers have died in a road accident in Saudi Arabia after the bus that was carrying them collided with a car, newspapers said on Saturday. The reports said the bus hit a sports utility vehicle on a desert highway near Abqaiq in the Eastern Province on Thursday night.
Eleven of the dead are Bangladeshi, three are Pakistani and two are Indian, the Arab News said. Sixteen men were injured. Around seven million of Saudi Arabia's 24 million population are foreign residents, mostly blue collar workers.
Motorists frequently exceed 120 km per hour speed limits on the desert highway linking Riyadh and the Gulf coast which has many sections that are unlit and badly surfaced.