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Deaths during the Hajj have been reported in past years, though not always as a result of extreme heat. In 2015, a stampede in Mina killed more than 2,400 people, th e AP reported. In other years ...
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 1,300 pilgrims died amid scorching heat during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia's health minister said Sunday. The fatalities included more than 660 people from Egypt ...
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 ...
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 ...
9 April 1998: At least 118 pilgrims were trampled to death and 180 injured in an incident on Jamaraat Bridge. [6] 5 March 2001: 35 pilgrims were trampled to death in a stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual. [7] 11 February 2003: The Stoning of the Devil ritual claimed 14 pilgrims' lives. [8]
To prevent crushes and accommodate more pilgrims each year during the Hajj season, Saudi authorities undertook a major construction project to expand the mosque compound in recent years. [41] At the time of the incident the Saudi authorities were preparing for the hundreds of thousands of people expected to arrive in the city for the Hajj due ...
Hundreds of people have died and thousands have been treated for heatstroke while performing the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca amid extreme temperatures. Hundreds of Hajj pilgrims die as ...