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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: 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.
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 January 1991
The Jamaraat Bridge complex Tent city at Mina in 2009 2015 Mina disaster map–Area surrounding streets 204 and 223. The Hajj is an annual pilgrimage in Mecca prescribed as a duty for Muslims to perform at least once during their lifetime if they can afford to do so physically and financially.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. ... 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy inside a pedestrian tunnel: Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia 1,389 30 May 1896
In 2015 more than 700 people were killed during a stampede in the Saudi Arabian city of Mina, just outside of Mecca. In 2006, 363 people were killed during a stampede at the site where pilgrims ...
1987 Mecca incident; 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy; 1994 Hajj stampede; 1998 Hajj stampede; ... Mecca fire of 1997; MosqueMeToo; Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Muqaddam; Q.
CAIRO (Reuters) -Fourteen Jordanians have been reported dead during the annual Muslim haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, some of them due to heat stroke, while 17 others were reported missing, the ...