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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: 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.
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 ...
At least 2,818 buildings have collapsed, including a 2,000-year-old castle and a mosque dating back to 1247
A series of earthquakes and aftershocks striking the border region between southeast Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday is feared to have killed 20,000 people.. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake ...
Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia 357 22 November 2010 Phnom Penh stampede: Phnom Penh, Cambodia: 354 23 October 1942 Crowd crush during an attack by the RAF Bomber Command in World War II as they made their way into Galleria delle Grazie, a railway tunnel used as an air-raid shelter. Genoa, Italy 328 24 May 1964 Estadio Nacional disaster: Lima, Peru 270
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.
1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy; 1994 Hajj stampede; 1998 Hajj stampede; 2001 Hajj stampede; 2004 Hajj stampede; 2006 Hajj stampede; 2015 Mina stampede; H. Incidents during ...