That is far more than the 769 dead officially reported by Saudi Arabia. Riyadh has said that more than 760 pilgrims died in the stampede near Mecca, the worst disaster to strike the annual pilgrimage in a quarter-century.
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Others include Pakistan with 89; India 81; Mali 70; Nigeria 64; Bangladesh 63; Senegal 54; Benin 51; Cameroon 42; Ethiopia 31; Morocco 27; Algeria 25; Ghana 12; Chad 11; Kenya eight and Turkey with three.
Indonesian forensic experts are in Saudi Arabia to help identify those still missing from the country after last month’s hajj disaster, an official said on Tuesday.
However Associated Press (AP) news agency did a separate tally based on figures from individual governments and came up with a death toll of 1,399 pilgrims.
1990: A stampede kills 1,426 people at an overcrowded pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy sites in Mecca.
Iran has blamed the disaster on the kingdom’s “mismanagement” and accused the Saudis of a cover-up.
It is the second disaster to strike Mecca in two weeks, after a crane collapsed at the Grand Mosque, killing 109 people.
According in to Mastening numbers News, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel AlovervallenJubeir later replied to Iran’s critique saying “the Iranians must know faster than to be affairs of state along with a tragedy”.
Gen. Yadollah Javani, a senior adviser to Khamenei from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said in reference to Khamenei’s statement that the “IRGC is ready and has the necessary ability to implement a command”.
Iran has the highest death toll among the countries affected by the tragedy.
Iran says Saudi Arabia’s incompetence in handling the safety at the rituals caused the deadly incident.
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He explained that selling on the streets of Saudi Arabia is not allow except during the pilgrimage; thus when a few Ghanaian pilgrims took advantage to sell things in order to fend for themselves while waiting to return home on Saturday October 10, they engaged their transactions in front of a Saudi native’s residence. That is likely due to Saudi Arabia’s powerful influence, including years of patronage using its oil wealth, and because the kingdom can set the quota of pilgrims each country can send to the hajj.
