Five Kuwaiti teenagers were killed and 17 injured when the bus they were travelling in crashed into a valley in Taif, Saudi Arabia, newspapers reported Sunday.
The boys were on their way to Islam's holiest city of Mecca to perform Omrah, when the bus careered off the main road in the mountainous western region of Taif and crashed, Al-Qabas said.
Fourteen of the injured were discharged from hospital while the remaining three remained in a stable condition, the paper said - KUWAIT CITY (AFP)
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