DOHA: Six people, including five Qatari nationals and a Saudi, died in a road accident near Raudat Al Rashid here yesterday. The tragic mishap actually took place a little after 12 midnight on Thursday.
The victims were travelling in a car which collided with a trailer, police sources in Al Shananiya , in whose jurisdiction Raudat Rashid area falls, told The Peninsula.
Five people died on the spot while the sixth one succumbed to his injuries when he was being taken to the Emergency Unit of Hamad Medical Corporation.
The police sources didn’t give further details about the accident such as the type of the vehicle the victims were travelling in and whether the trailer was coming in from the opposite direction or moving in the same direction as the car of the victims.
The mishap took place when the car of the victims took turn in the Khasara area at 12.20am (Friday).
To recall, just almost seven to eight hours earlier, six people, all of them construction workers died in a tragic road accident in Lusail.
