Hyderabad, December 09: The last batch of Haj pilgrims from the State would return to the city from Jeddah by Friday.
While one flight of Saudi Airlines will arrive at 12.15 am on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, the last flight will land at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad at 8.30 pm on Friday. These two flights would carry 475 Haj pilgrims including 45 children.
So far, as many as 7,548 Haj pilgrims from the State including a few from Bidar and Gulbarga districts, have returned to the city in 24 flights since November 13. The arrival of last two flights would mark the end of the Haj season -2011.
As many as nine pilgrims from the State have died during the Haj pilgrimage last month.
——-Agencies