Jeddah Municipality has recognized the existence of the remains of the dead at a construction site in the district of Baghdadiah. In a statement it said that a committee has been formed consisting members from Jeddah province, Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, Jeddah Municipality and the General Court). The committee considered consulting the Grand Mufti by the Jeddah General Court to issue a fatwa about the land of the north-eastern side of the Rawdah cemetry, an Al-Madina report said. The municipality confirmed in a statement that the site is considered for an investment project and not a cemetery. Before being proposed for the project, the land was a park dedicated to a kindergarten. Before offering the site for bidding, it was used as a car parking lot for several years. The municipality explained that the investment bidding and award procedures and contract signing were certified for a kindergarten. "The project is almost finished with construction and during periods of digging the foundations, construction and follow-up did not show any traces of dead people for the cemetery, and only when digging to install the sewage tank in the northwestern part the remains of bones and so on appeared 7.5 m from the building," noting that work has stopped until the issuance of the fatwa. The legal representative of the investor Khaled Al-Ghamdi, said: "We are waiting for the decision of the municipality to issue a decision to cancel the contract and its dissolution and then we will demand them to indemnify us for the losses that investors bore in excess of SR15 million since the beginning of the project and until the pausing of work." Lawyer and legal adviser Khaled Al-Mehmadi said that the investor must go to the Administrative Court and demand cancellation of the contract and then claim compensation for construction and rescue losses and the value of what he paid since the beginning of the bidding and even suspension of the project as well as to claim compensation for losses sustained throughout the period of the project.
