The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques ordered the formation of a high-level investigating and fact-finding committee on the deaths and destructions of rains and floods in Jeddah 2 Jeddah

up with profound pain the disastrous incidents which took place as a result of rain fall on Jeddah Province, leading to fatalities exceeding one hundred and the injury of many people in addition to sizable and numerous damages of public and private properties. Emanating from my responsibility, I instructed the concerned authorities to take the necessary and most prompt and possible measures to prevent the occurrence of losses and damages. I also instructed the concerned officials to follow-up this matter step by step and take the necessary measure in due time. Despite that, it is painful to notice that this disaster was not a result of heavy rain or that it was accompanied by strong cyclones that could be described as extraordinary or as uncontrollable, but, regrettably, the catastrophe was a result of rain which you don"t describe as disastrous, the royal order said in a statement.
It is regrettable to say that such quantity of rain falls semi-daily in a number of advanced countries and other countries, some of them are less advanced than our country in terms of facilities and capabilities to face such situations. However, in those countries no human losses or material damages take place in the way we have seen in Jeddah Province. It is really painful, the statement quoted the King as saying.
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