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The tunnel had been worked on as part of a $15 billion project around Mecca's holy sites started two years earlier by the Saudi government. [ 2 ] While pilgrims were traveling to perform the ritual Stoning of the Devil at 10:00 a.m. [ 3 ] the disaster started when a pedestrian bridge railing was bent, causing seven people to fall off a bridge ...
2 July 1990: 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 ...
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.
At least 2,818 buildings have collapsed, including a 2,000-year-old castle and a mosque dating back to 1247
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Houses were fully destroyed," a local man, Ait Ougadir Al Houcine, said Tuesday as crews worked to recover bodies, including his sister's. “Some people lost all their cattle.
The Titan’s wreckage was seen for the first time in pictures after the Coast Guard announced on Thursday (23 June) that ROVs (remotely-operated vehicles) found its chambers in a sea of debris 1 ...
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