Following the deaths of several Indian Umrah pilgrims from Hyderabad in a bus collision near Medina, Esmaeil Baqaei conveyed his sympathies to the families of the victims and expressed solidarity with the people and government of India.
At least 45 Indian Muslims were killed as a bus carrying them between pilgrimage sites in Saudi Arabia crashed on Monday.
The bus collided with a diesel tanker on a highway as it travelled from the holy city of Mecca to Medina.