The balance sheet fallout minutes in minutes. According to the latest figures provided by Saudi civil defense, as many as 717 people were killed and 805 injured in the stampede Thursday in Mina, near the Mecca, during one of the annual pilgrimage rituals. The last review reported 403 dead and 719 injured.
Two million pilgrims
On the first day of the feast of Adha, pilgrims, nearly two million people according to statistics released Wednesday night, Thursday began the ritual stoning of Satan in Mina valley. This ritual of throwing seven stones on the first day of Eid al-Adha on a large stele representing Satan, and 21 stones the next day or two on the three steles.
Saudi Arabia has mobilized 100,000 police officers for the pilgrimage, and throughout the hajj, the flow of pilgrims, many of shelter from the sun with umbrellas, was channeled by the cords of the security forces and volunteers distributing food and water.
Before the hajj to Mecca, a crane collapsed at the Great Mosque on September 11, killing more than 100 people. The last drama hajj dated back to 2006. The January 6, 76 people died in the collapse of a dilapidated hotel in Mecca and 12 January, 364 pilgrims died in a stampede during the ritual stoning of steles Satan at Mina.
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