‘We are supporting the families of six British people who have sadly died following a road accident in Saudi Arabia,’ a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
‘We are also helping several more British nationals who were injured in the crash,’ she said, without specifying how many.
Glasgow Central Mosque released a statement naming two of the victims as Glasgow couple Mohammad Aslam and Talat Aslam, who have five children, saying they had just completed umra, a pilgrimage to Makkah, Islam's holiest site.
They ‘were travelling in a minibus’ to Medina, it said, adding: ‘Four members of another family from Manchester were also killed in the tragedy’.
