Jakarta, March 24 -- The Indonesian Consulate General (KJRI) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, confirmed that six Umrah pilgrims who lost their lives in a bus accident on the Madinah-Mecca highway on March 20 will be laid to rest there.

"Currently, we have obtained approval for five bodies to be buried here (Saudi Arabia)," Consul General Yusron Ambary noted in a video statement from Jeddah KJRI received here on Monday.

According to Ambary, the family of the sixth victim also expressed its wish for his wife's remains to be interred in Saudi Arabia, ensuring that all six victims would be buried there.

Consequently, the Jeddah KJRI will seek formal written consent from the family to proceed with the burial arrangements in Saudi Arabia.

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