Jeddah: A pall of gloom descended upon the Karimnagar NRI community in Saudi capital Riyadh following the death of one of its young compatriots in a fatal road mishap.
A software engineer from Karimnagar was killed and three others were injured in a road mishap near to Madinah in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Syed Saddamullah, 34, a software engineer at TCS in Riyadh was killed in the road mishap while returning to Riyadh from Madinah following prayers at Prophet Mosque and Umrah in Makkah.
A native of Karimnagar town’s Karkhana Gadda, he was travelling in a vehicle that overturned near Al Hinakiyah village on Riyadh road, nearly 120 km away from Madinah city.
He, along with other three youths, all hailing from Karimnagar town and living in Riyadh, were in the vehicle, according to sources.
Saddamullah got married a year and half ago and is survived by his 26-year-old wife and a 6-month-old baby boy.
The grief-stricken wife, who is living in Karimnagar, is desperate and insists on seeing the face of her husband on video call. However the deceased was disfigured due to the injuries caused by the accident, they added.
The other three injured are out of danger and currently under treatment.