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The incident occurred inside a 550-meter-long (1,800 ft) and 10-meter-wide (33 ft) pedestrian tunnel (tunnel Al-Ma'aisim) leading out from Mecca towards Mina and the Plains of Arafat.
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 ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Pages in category "Incidents during the Hajj" ... 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy; 1994 Hajj stampede;
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.
Serious loss of life at Hajj occurs periodically (in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2015); not surprising in a situation where two million or more pilgrims "all trying to do the same thing in the same place on the same day" while speaking different languages, and are vulnerable to death from suffocation or being physically crushed in the ...
Last year, at least 240 people died but cause of the death wasn’t specified. And in the worst Hajj disaster, a deadly crush in 2015 killed more than 2,000 people.
The second-deadliest incident at hajj was a 1990 stampede that killed 1,426 people. Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 December 2024. Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca "Haj" redirects here. For other uses, see Hajj (disambiguation) and Haj (disambiguation). Hajj حَجّ Pilgrims at the Al-Masjid Al-Haram Mosque in Mecca on Hajj in 2010 Status Active Genre Religious pilgrimage Begins 8th day of Dhu al-Hijja Ends 12th or ...