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The tunnel had been worked on as part of a $15 billion project around Mecca's holy sites started two years earlier by the Saudi government. [ 2 ] While pilgrims were traveling to perform the ritual Stoning of the Devil at 10:00 a.m. [ 3 ] the disaster started when a pedestrian bridge railing was bent, causing seven people to fall off a bridge ...
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.
This is a list of crowd collapses and crushes in which at least five people died. The deadliest modern crowd crush incidents have both occurred during the Hajj pilgrimage, with the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy claiming 1,426 lives and the 2015 Mina stampede claiming 2,400. [1]
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Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia 1,426 3 July 1990 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy inside a pedestrian tunnel: Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia 1,389 30 May 1896 Khodynka Tragedy at coronation of Nicholas II (Moscow, 1896) Khodynka Field, Moscow, Russia: 953 31 August 2005
Alone (1990) 1024 Lake Ave, Wilmette, IL (2024) ... Had seen some posts before on same scene at tunnel. Happened to be locating a store from The Devil’s Rejects and happened through it on the ...
[100] [101] [102] For example, on 2 July 1990, a pilgrimage to Mecca ended in tragedy when the ventilation system failed in a crowded pedestrian tunnel and 1,426 people were either suffocated or trampled to death in a stampede. [103] On 24 September 2015, 700 pilgrims were killed in a stampede at Mina during the stoning-the-Devil ritual at ...
Scattered across the New York City subway system, strewn between its millions of comers and goers, are thousands of long-term loiters, perpetual itinerants, and permanent subterranean residents.