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Pilgrims gather at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. A towering construction crane toppled over on Friday during a violent rainstorm in the Saudi city of Mecca, crashing into the Grand Mosque and killing over a hundred people, ahead of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage later this month. (AP)
Saudi Arabia will keep making payments to Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) for ongoing work and its review of the company's current jobs after last week's Makkah crane disaster is to ensure it meets safety standards, a senior Saudi official said on Thursday.
On Tuesday, the kingdom's royal court said SBG had been suspended from taking any new contracts, that its existing projects would be reviewed by the Finance Ministry and that its board members and senior executives would be banned from travel.
An initial government investigation into Friday's incident, when a crane toppled into Makkah’s Grand Mosque during a dust storm killing 107, found that Saudi Arabia's largest contractor had not secured it in accordance with its instruction manual.
The senior Saudi source said, via an intermediary known to Reuters, that the royal court's ruling does not affect current projects SBG is involved in and the review was to ensure all its projects adhered to safety rules and regulations.
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