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Between 14 and 19 June 2024, at least 1,301 people on the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca died due to extreme heat, with temperatures exceeding 50 °C (122 °F). [1] [2] Extreme heat caused heat stroke and dehydration, leading to the deaths. The hottest recorded temperature reported in the Grand Mosque of Mecca was 51.8 °C (125.2 °F). [3]
In the summer of 2024, Saudi officials reported treating more than 2,000 people for heat stress. As of 21 June, 550 people had died from heat stroke. At least 320 of the dead were from Egypt. [119] As of 23 June 2024, more than 1000 people had died, [120] more than half of them from Egypt.
Stoning of the Devil, 2006. The dense, surging crowds, trekking from one station of the pilgrimage to the next, can cause a progressive crowd collapse.At densities above six [2] to seven [3] persons per square meter, individuals cannot move, groups are swept along in waves, individuals jostle to find breath and to avoid falling and being trampled, and hundreds of deaths can occur as a result.
The heatwave in Saudi Arabia blamed for the deaths of 1,300 people on the haj pilgrimage this month was made worse by climate change, a team of European scientists said on Friday. The heat would ...
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Thousands of people at a religious gathering in India rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede Tuesday that killed at least 116 people and injured scores, officials said. It was not immediately clear what triggered the panic following an event with a Hindu guru known locally as Bhole Baba.
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) -At least 24 people died of suspected heatstroke in India's eastern states of Bihar and Odisha on Thursday, and the heatwave in the region is expected to continue ...
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 ...
For Bangkok, March ended with temperatures 2.2 F (1.2 C) above the historical average. In April, that number was 4.5 F (2.5 C), and the number is over 6 F (3.3 C) above the historical average so ...