Azeri pilgrim dies in bus crash

An Azerbaijani national heading a group of pilgrims who were on their way back from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca has been killed in a road accident.

Rafig Babayev died after a bus with 26 pilgrims crashed in the Hama city of Syria on Wednesday, the State Committee on Religious Bodies told AssA-Irada. The driver received serious injuries.

The passengers will travel to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic by bus and then to Baku by airplane.*