Mecca Crane Accident: Families Of Nigerian Victims To Get N70million Each

Families of the six Nigerian pilgrims who died in the last Friday crane collapse at the Makkah (mecca) grand Mosque are to get N70 million each.

Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud who disclosed this on Tuesday has also ordered that top officials of the Saudi Binladin Group be banned from traveling outside the kingdom after the construction company was partially blamed for Friday's deadly crane crash in Makkah.

Saudi authority said families of each of the 111 people who lost their lives in the accident be paid compensation of (SR1,000,000) one million Saudi Riyals.

One Saudi Riyal is presently equivalent to 70 Nigerian Naira.

According to Saudi local newspaper, Arab News, 'King Salman ordered the payment of the following to the families of the victims: SR1,000,000 to the family of each person killed in this accident; SR1,000,000 to each injured whose injury resulted in permanent disability; SR500,000 to each of the other injured."

According to the report, such payment would not deprive the families of the deceased as well as the injured from the right to claim for private right before the competent judicial authorities.

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