Four members of one family from Chorlton are believed to have been killed in the crash which killed six people including a two-month-old baby while travelling to Medina in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
Reports that a seventh person was also killed have not been confirmed.
UPDATE -Travel firm Haji Tours has named the youngest victim as Muhammad Adam Anis, who was just a few months old, and known as Adam.
It also named the baby’s grandparents among the dead, 64-year-old Khurshid Ahmed and Noshina Ahmed, 49, and family member Rabia Ahmad, 57, who were all from Manchester.
The bus was carrying twelve passengers between Mecca and Medina when it crashed on Wednesday.
The Manchester-based tour operator Haji Tours said the group was performing Umrah, a pilgrimage made by Muslims to Mecca.
The Manchester victims are thought to include a grandmother and her newborn grandson while the baby’s mother and her two other children are understood to have been critically injured in the accident.
“We are supporting the families of six British people who have sadly died following a road accident in Saudi Arabia. We are also helping several more British nationals who were injured in the crash. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families at this very difficult time,” the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said in a statement.
Glasgow central mosque named the Scottish victims as Mohammad and Talat Aslam, parents of five, from the Newlands area of the city.
