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Between 14 and 19 June 2024, at least 1,301 people on the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca died due to extreme heat, with temperatures exceeding 50 °C (122 °F). [1] [2] Extreme heat caused heat stroke and dehydration, leading to the deaths.
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The official death toll from this year’s Hajj pilgrimage has soared to almost 500 and the true toll could be more than double that as reports emerged that as many as 600 Egyptian worshipers ...
Hajj drew almost 2 million pilgrims in 124 degree desert heat. US couple who perished 'saved their whole lives for this.' An annual Muslim pilgrimage became a death march for 1,300 as temperatures ...
More than 1.83 million Muslims performed the Hajj in 2024, including more than 1.6 million pilgrims from 22 countries, and around 222,000 Saudi citizens and residents, according to the Saudi Hajj ...
The 2024 Hajj ran from the evening of 14 June through 19 June. Casualties. The health minister of Saudi Arabia said at least 1,301 died during the pilgrimage. Of the dead, at least 600 were Egyptian pilgrims. Jordanian diplomats stated that 60 Jordanians also died from extreme heat.
Stress due to heat has been exacerbated by increases in regional temperatures induced by climate change, which Saudi researchers stated in a March 2024 study in the Journal of Travel Medicine represented an average rise of dry-bulb temperatures by 0.4 °C (0.7 °F) and wet-bulb temperatures by 0.2 °C (0.4 °F) per decade. Both are strongly ...
There were not enough medics or basic facilities to protect Hajj pilgrims from the effects of the sweltering heat in Saudi Arabia last week, two pilgrims recently returned from Hajj told CNN, as ...