By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS
JEDDAH: The director general of the department responsible for providing services to Umrah pilgrims at the Ministry of Haj has asked all pilgrimage service-providing companies to liaise with embassies and consulates to identify and repatriate dead pilgrims whose bodies are still being stored in hospital morgues.
Abdul Aziz bin Asaad Damanhouri asked the companies to inform the ministry whether affected families have decided to bury their relatives in the Kingdom or repatriate their remains back home.
A committee assigned to study the problem recommended that the bodies of the pilgrims should be either handed over to the families back home or buried in the Kingdom within a maximum period of 60 days.
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