Dubai minibus crash: Deceased cleaners were on their way to a school

The victims of a minibus crash that killed eight people including the driver on Monday morning, were cleaners on their way to a school in Al Warqaa, according to sources.
The workers employed by First Security Group were killed when the minibus they were travelling in from Jebel Ali to Al Warqaa rammed into a heavy truck at 4.54am. The accident also injured six people.
The Nepalese Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Indian Consulate-General in Dubai have released names of the seven men who lost their lives in the accident.
All the deceased from Nepal were aged between 30 and 35 years, said Rita Dhital, the chief of mission and minister counselor at the Embassy of Nepal in Abu Dhabi, told Khaleej Times. The deceased from India, one among the youngest, was born in 1995.
The men from Nepal who died in the accident are - Dhan Bahadur Sakatyal, Narayan Prasad Pokhrel, Krishna Bahadur Pun Magar, Ramesh Chaudhary, Nayaram Saud and Dipak Bishokarma. The Indian who lost his life in the accident is Gnanasekaran Bose, aged 24, according to Jitender Singh Negi, the consul for labour, consular and Madad at the Indian Consulate.
According to Dhital, the blue-collared workers were all employed as cleaners in a company in Dubai. She said: "As per the rules, the company will take care of repatriation of their mortal remains after completing all necessary formalities."
Furthermore, officers from the Nepalese Embassy travelled to Dubai on Tuesday morning and are working with the local authorities to expedite procedures. "We are in talks with the HR department of the company they worked for," said Dhital.
Negi said: "There are five Indians admitted in the hospital now and one among them is in the ICU."
Khaleej Times has also reached out to the Pakistani diplomatic mission in Dubai for details on the eighth victim, whom the Dubai Police officials revealed as a Pakistani national.
Social workers are also working with the authorities to speed up the repatriation of the mortal remains. Naseer Vatanappally, a social worker, said the Nepalese and Indian missions have already initiated the process to complete the legal formalities and to repatriate the bodies.
Advocate Hashiq, a legal consultant and social worker, said that most of the injured are in stable condition. "It's another sad incident. The Dubai Police have been trying hard to have a zero fatality rate on roads but such incidents are a huge blow to that effort. A small distraction can cost a heavy price. Here, at the hospital, most of the injured are shocked at the tragic incident and are not aware that their colleagues are no more."
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