Four Yemeni siblings drown in floodwaters in Makkah

Four Yemeni siblings died in a drowning incident in a flooded valley in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Identical Yemeni sources and Saudi media reported that a Yemeni citizen residing in Saudi Arabia lost control of his car yesterday, Tuesday, while trying to cross with his wife and six of his children, through the torrents of Wadi Al-Maghmas, east of Mecca.

The sources added that the strong current of the floods swept the car until it hit one of the walls of the farms in the area, and got stuck in one of the flood drainage culverts in that wall.

The accident resulted in the death of three girls, the eldest of whom was seven years old, and their brother, who was four years old, while the father, mother, and two of their children were rescued.

We offer our deepest condolences and sympathy to Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Qamlan
And his honorable family in the great loss of four of his sons in a drowning accident in the valley of Makkah Al-Mukarramah. We ask God to have mercy on them and replace them with good ones, and to increase your reward and improve your consolation and to make up for your loss and to inspire you with patience and solace. To God we belong and to Him we shall return.

— Hadi Tarshan Al-Waili (@hadi_tarshan) September 4, 2024

According to the sources, the deceased are the children of the Yemeni citizen residing in Saudi Arabia (Nasser Mohammed Qamlan). Activists and officials expressed their feelings of sadness over the incident and sent telegrams of condolences to their father who was injured in the incident, while others published pictures that they said were of the child victims, but we were unable to verify their authenticity.

There is no power or strength except with God.. A tragedy befell the Yemeni citizen Nasser Qamlan, with the death of four of his children and the injury of him and his wife..
May God inspire them with patience, have mercy on their children, make them intercessors for them, and heal and cure them. https://t.co/7KAy6CL7Y2

- Muhammad Aldhabyani M.Aldhabyani (@maldhabyani) September 3, 2024