Over 600 Muslims Killed and Injured While Trying To "Stone The Devil" In Saudi Arabia Hajj
More than 200 people have died and 390 injured in Saudi Arabia after a
stampede of pilgrims at the desert plain of Mina, near the holy city of
Mecca.
The
incident took place as almost 2 million people arrived in Saudi Arabia
to make the Hajj pilgrimage in honour of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim feast
of sacrifice. This is one of the worst incidents in years to hit the
annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia, officials said.
Saudi Arabia’s civil defence service released the toll and said rescue operations were under way. It
was not immediately clear what had caused the stampede.
Pilgrims
had converged on Mina just outside Mecca on Thursday to throw pebbles
at one of three walls representing Satan, the symbolic “stoning of the
devil” that marks the last day of the event.
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