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A concrete multi-story building located in Mecca close to the Grand Mosque collapsed on 5 January 2006. The building, the Al-Ghaza Hotel, is said to have housed a restaurant, a convenience store, and a hotel. The hotel was reported to have been housing pilgrims to the 2006 Hajj. As a result, 76 people died and 62 people were injured. [35]
Saudi officials concluded that crowd hysteria occurring from the falling pilgrims was the cause. [8] Many who died were of Malaysian, [9] Indonesian and Pakistani origin. [10] [11] [12] According to one Malaysian account, 80 percent of the deaths occurred outside the tunnel, and 20 percent (about 285) inside. [13]
The 2006 Hajj stampede or crush resulted in the deaths of 363 pilgrims [1] on 12 January 2006 during the Hajj in Mecca. It took place on Jamaraat Bridge around 1pm on 12 January 2006, the fifth and final day of the Hajj. [1] Between two and three million pilgrims attended the Hajj in 2006.
After 1,300 people died during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, witnesses and experts say high temperatures and difficulties with crowd control made the event dangerous.
In 2006, 363 people were killed during a stampede at the site where pilgrims gathered to participate in the ‘stoning of the devil’ ritual in Mina. Last year, more than 200 people died.
Hajj heat deaths: 500 Egyptian pilgrims perish in 124-degree temps. Hajj has seen tragedy before . Catastrophic deaths at Hajj are not new. A stampede in 2015 killed more than 2,200 people, and ...
Thirteen pilgrims from the Kurdistan Region in Iraq were reported dead of reported heatstroke. [9] Five female pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir succumbed to heat stroke on Mount Arafat and in Muzdalifah. [10] Other pilgrims from Iran and Senegal were also among the dead. [11] [12] Saudi authorities said there were over 2,700 instances of heat ...
Around 1.8 million Muslims have taken part in the days-long pilgrimage this year