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On 24 September 2015, a fatal crowd crush resulted in the death of more than 2,000 individuals, many of whom were suffocated or crushed, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history.
Saudi Hajj minister, Bandar Al Hajjar, [note 2] stated that the Hajj that year would be the last to be affected by reductions in pilgrim quotas due to construction work and is quoted to have said that, "Starting from next Hajj season, the number of pilgrims will increase to 5 million and then to 30 million in the coming five years". [46] [47]
The average daily wet-bulb temperatures during Hajj between 1979 and 2019 exceeded the US National Weather Service danger threshold of 24.6 °C (76.3 °F) on 38 days, nearly half of which took place in 2015–2019. The study also showed that Hajj pilgrims from countries with colder average temperature were 4.5 times more likely to die than ...
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.
Hundreds were killed outside Mecca in a stampede during the annual hajj pilgrimage in 2015. In a new study, researchers analyzed the movement of thousands of spectators attending the San Fermín ...
24 September 2015: 2015 Mina stampede: Saudi Arabia: Mina: Overcrowding incident during the Hajj pilgrimage. A further 934 were injured. [110] 12: 25 October 2015: Unnamed: Afghanistan: Taloqan: Girls aged ten to fifteen were killed and another 42 were injured in a crush on a stairway while trying to escape the school during the 2015 Hindu Kush ...
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
The crash was the second fatal accident on I-65 Friday. Early Friday morning, a crash involving two semis, killed five people on I-65 in Lafayette. The deceased include a woman and her two ...