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Saudi king announces 1m Riyals for each victim


প্রকাশিত: ১:৫৫ পিএম, ১৬ সেপ্টেম্বর ১৫ , বুধবার

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makka--Online Desk:     Saudi king Salman has ordered 1 million Saudi Riyals compensation for each injured with permanent disability, and half a million riyal compensation for the injured in Haram accident, English daily Saudi Gazette reported Tuesday.

Families of the crane collapse victims, who embraced martyrdom, will also receive one million riyals compensation, the Saudi royal court said.

Two relatives of the deceased will be the King’s guests for Hajj in 2016, Saudi Gazette added.

makka--2..............King Salman also sanctioned the powerful Saudi Binladin Group on Tuesday over the collapse of a construction crane at Makkah’s Grand Mosque, which killed more than 100 people days before the Haj pilgrimage, reports Khaleej Times

An investigative commission had concluded that the company “was in part responsible” for Friday’s tragedy, which killed at least 107 people and injured almost 400 during a severe thunderstorm accompanied by violent winds.

The company had not “respected the norms of safety” at the site, the official Saudi Press Agency said.

The firm’s executives have been forbidden from leaving the kingdom pending the completion of legal action against the company, SPA said.

During the same period, the company will also be excluded from new public projects.

The construction firm had been working for four years on a 400,000-square-metre (4.3-million-square-feet) enlargement of the Grand Mosque, the Khaleej Times added.

That is the equivalent of more than 50 football pitches, and will allow the complex to accommodate roughly two million people at once.