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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 ...
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 ...
On 21 May 1930 the Fabre Line's SS Asia, having brought 700 Algerian pilgrims to Mecca for the Hajj and then loaded some 1,500 pilgrims, c. 1,200 of them Yemenis returning to Aden and c. 300 from French Somaliland returning to Djibouti, caught fire in Jeddah harbour. At least 112 pilgrims died, possibly many more.
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 ...
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] (Although the term "stampede" is used in some media outlets, the ...
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 ...
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 ...