REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Vice President Jusuf Kalla has offered condolences over the hajj pilgrims who were killed when a construction crane fell at Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Friday.
"Let me extend my deep condolences over the victims of crane collapse at the Masjidil Haram in Mecca," he said on his Twitter account on Saturday.
The accident left 107 people dead and 238 others injured. Among the victims were Indonesian hajj pilgrims.
The Indonesian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday two Indonesian hajj pilgrims were killed and 31 others were injured in the accident.
"The victims died in two different places. In the Sector 4 the dead victim was identified as Masnauli Sijuadil Hasibuan (59) of flight batch MES and at Ajyad Hospital the dead victim was identified as Iti Rasti binti Darmini (57) of flight batch JKS," the ministry's director of Indonesian citizen protection, Lalu Muhammad Iqbal said.
"The Indonesian consulate general and the hajj technical staff in Jeddah have been coordinating with the local authorities to ensure that the Indonesians falling victim to the accident are treated well," he said.
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