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The tunnel's capacity of 1,000 soon filled with as many as 5,000 people. [5] With outside temperatures of 44 °C (111 °F), a failure of the tunnel's ventilation system was also blamed for many of the deaths. [6] Some witnesses claimed they believed a demonstration was occurring; others reported that the power to the tunnel was deactivated. [7]
2 July 1990: 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy: Saudi Arabia: Mina, Mecca: A blockage at an exit of a pedestrian tunnel (Al-Ma'aisim tunnel) leading out from Mecca towards Mina and the Plains of Arafat led to deaths by suffocation of many religious pilgrims while they were traveling to perform the Stoning of the Devil ritual during the Hajj. 40: 13 ...
2 July 1990: A stampede or crush inside a pedestrian tunnel (Al-Ma'aisim tunnel) leading out from Mecca towards Mina and the Plains of Arafat led to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims, many of them of Malaysian, Indonesian and Pakistani origin. [4] [5] 23 May 1994: A stampede killed at least 270 pilgrims at the Stoning of the Devil ritual.
Outside Western newspapers, Google news archive does have some nice coverage from the English Malaysian paper New Straits Times, but the early July 1990 issues are missing.--Milowent • has spoken 13:43, 6 October 2015 (UTC) Report of new tunnel plan, Aug 1990: (2 Aug 1990).
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Video for Windows 1.1: Added Cinepak codec. Five updates were released for this version: 1.1a through 1.1e, with the last one (published in March 1995) being the last version for Windows 3.1x. 1.1d included Indeo 3.2 codec (which Apple alleged to have infringed on the source code from Apple's QuickTime for Windows). September 1994: Video for ...
Mina (Arabic: مِنَى, romanized: Minā), nicknamed the "City of the Tents," [1] [2] is a valley located 8 kilometres (5 miles) southeast of the city of Mecca, in the district of Masha'er, Province of Makkah in the Hejazi region Saudi Arabia.
Dream Quest designed a motion-control rig with a precision steel ladder belt encased in plastic. The track was attached to the "Omega driver", a large sprocket attached to the camera dolly. [4] With real-time motion control over forty-eight feet of track and console-controlled camera-orientation options, it could record aspects such as velocity.