Saudi authorities have denied online claims that eight members of one family had been killed in a traffic accident.
The denial came after grief and condolences poured in Wednesday on social media purportedly in reaction to a Saudi university student’s death after learning about the death of eight members of his family in a road crash.
The Saudi traffic directorate said in an X post that “what was circulated on social media sites about the death of eight persons from one family in a traffic accident is untrue”.
The directorate called for getting information from official sources.
Social media reports had earlier spread like wildfire claiming that a student at the King University named Meshari bin Khalid Al Subaiy passed away after receiving the devastating news of his family’s deaths.
