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  2. 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy - Wikipedia

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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 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]

  3. Incidents during the Hajj - Wikipedia

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    924: The Hajj caravan returning from Mecca to Iraq is attacked and destroyed by the Qarmatians. [17] 925: The Hajj caravan setting out from Kufa is stopped by Qarmatian attacks and forced to return to Iraq. [18] 930: On the first day of Hajj, Qarmatian leader Abu Tahir al-Jannabi led an attack on Mecca and set about massacring the pilgrims.

  4. List of fatal crowd crushes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. An annual Muslim pilgrimage became a death march for ... - AOL

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    The annual Muslim pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca that wrapped up last week became a death march for over 1,300 Hajj participants who died in ... and another stampede in 1990 killed over ...

  6. Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid scorching ...

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    Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid scorching temperatures ... The second-deadliest incident at the Hajj was a 1990 stampede that killed 1,426 people. ... in Mecca and sacred sites ...

  7. 2015 Mina stampede - Wikipedia

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    The 2015 Hajj occurred during a time of regional turmoil (including wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya), the highest temperatures in Mecca in 20 years and the threat of MERS. [ 26 ] A number of Hajj-related crowd crush disasters have occurred in the past, [ 27 ] with 1,426 people being suffocated and trampled to death in a 1990 tunnel ...

  8. Hundreds of Hajj pilgrims die as Mecca temperatures hit 120 ...

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    More than 300 people have died and thousands have been treated for heatstroke while performing the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca amid extreme temperatures of up to 49 degrees Celsius (120 ...

  9. 1987 Mecca incident - Wikipedia

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    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 ...