Five members of the same family from Newport have been killed in a taxi crash while on a pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
They have been named locally as Shaukat Ali Hayat, 56, his wife Abida, 47, eldest son Mohammed Isshaq, 33, daughter Saira Zenub and Mohammed's heavily pregnant wife, Bilques.
One-year-old Mohammed Eisa Daniel survived.
It is thought their taxi left a motorway on Friday.
A Foreign Office spokesman is assisting the relatives.
It has been reported that the cab hit a concrete bridge, somersaulted off the road and ended up in a ditch.
The family was travelling to Jeddha to meet relatives four hours away, the South Wales Argus reported.
Baby survivedThe newspaper reported that one of the family members killed was due to be married this weekend.
Rescuers initially thought that the whole family had died but they found the baby boy cushioned under his grandfather.
The child suffered a dislocated shoulder and a broken arm and ribs, said the paper.
Twenty members of the family are reported to have travelled to Saudi Arabia to take the baby back to Newport.
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