The only survivor: Shoaib’s escape from a tragic Umrah bus crash

A Hyderabad family’s Umrah trip turned into one of the year’s darkest tragedies.

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00:00Every member of this Hyderabad family died in the bus that crashed while traveling from

00:04Mecca to Medina.

00:05Out of 46 passengers, 45 never made it home.

00:08The only survivor is 24-year-old Mohammed Abdul Shoaib, who had traveled for Umrah with

00:13his parents, his grandfather and three members of his uncle's family.

00:16All six were on the same bus, all six died in the fire.

00:20Shoaib had reportedly moved to the seat next to the driver and was talking to him to pass

00:24time on the long journey.

00:26When the collision happened, Shoaib and the driver had seconds to react.

00:29They reportedly jumped out of the window.

00:32Behind them, the bus went in flames.

00:34Back in Hyderabad, relatives who stayed behind in Mecca received Shoaib's call, a grief-shaken

00:39voice telling him he had survived a tragedy that took his entire family.

00:43Across Telangana, news of the accident spread quickly.

00:46The Indian Embassy and the consulate in Saudi Arabia are assisting families as leaders in

00:51India express grief and offer support.

00:53And in a hospital room in Medina, one young man is now fighting to recover from a tragedy

00:58that spared his life but took away almost everything else.

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