1 killed as trucks catch fire after colliding in Ras Al Khaimah

Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

An Asian driver was killed in Ras Al Khaimah on Monday in a collision between two trucks. The collision led the two trucks to be gutted.

According to Ras Al Khaimah Police, the operations room received a report on a collision between two trucks, as a result of which they caught fire and one driver was killed.

The competent authorities rushed to the scene of the collision and the civil defence men and the search and rescue section dealt immediately with the fire.

The driver’s body was recovered from the truck and transported by ambulance to a hospital, while the competent traffic authorities sketched the scene of the accident so that the legal procedures en force would be completed.

Recently, in a separate incident, a 41-year-old Egyptian, G.M.G.A., passed away in Saqr Hospital in Ras Al Khaimah, due to a horrible accident he had during the first days of the Holy Month of Ramadan.

The incident happened 3 hours before Iftar, which led to the amputation of his legs. The victim died after he spent about 10 days receiving treatment in the intensive care unit, where several surgeries were performed on him to save his life.

His body was transported to Egypt, to be buried in his hometown. Ahmed Kamal, the director of the company the deceased worked for, said that the victim was in a parking lot of a hotel at the time of the accident.

He was accompanied by a private car driver, waiting for their friend. When he got out of the vehicle, he was run over by a car driven by an Arab national, causing him severe injuries.

He reportedly sustained major wounds on separate parts of his body, and doctors had to amputate both of his legs. Kamal added that the victim had a wife, 4 children, and an elderly mother, who were all in Egypt.

He had not travelled to his homeland or seen his children and wife for about a year and a half. He reportedly had been working and living in the UAE for more than 10 years. A source indicated that the medical report proved that the cause of death was pulmonary embolism, due to multiple fractures in the femur.