Five Filipinos were reportedly burnt to death when their car was hit by another vehicle and caught fire near Doha’s Hamad International Airport (HIA) on the Corniche-Wakrah highway yesterday, a report from Gulf Times said.
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incident took place between 12:30 and 1pm. Apart from the five fatalities, a Filipina co-passenger was also seriously injured.
While the Traffic Department confirmed the deceased were Filipino expatriates, their names were not immediately known. Unconfirmed reports say that one of those killed in the accident was a young child. The other vehicle in the road mishap was reportedly driven by a young national who escaped only with minor injuries.
A Philippine embassy official, who visited the Hamad hospital mortuary, told Gulf Times that all bodies had been charred beyond recognition.
“The bodies have so badly been burnt that even the gender of the deceased could not be verified. Forensic examination would be required to identify the victims,” he said.
It was also not known whether the victims were going to the airport to see off somebody or to receive someone.Soon after the accident, the authorities deployed several police personnel and more than 15 vehicles at the site for relief operations, inquiries found.
Sources at the Hamad Hospital said the mortuary has received five bodies, all victims of an accident from "somewhere" near the HIA.
In the wee hours on Sunday, a Qatari national and two others were killed when two cars collided near the Halul Cafe, opposite the new museum under construction, along Corniche. A Bahraini and Iranian were the other victims.
