He said officials had no idea about the whereabouts of missing pilgrims.
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Sardar Yousaf said the government had made comprehensive arrangements to extend maximum facilities to Pakistani pilgrims in Saudi Arabia during Hajj.
“Mismanagement was the main cause of the stampede in September 24”, said Sheikh Abdulmalik Almas, a Shia-ithnesheriyah theological scholar and a pilgrim who survived the ordeal.
The snapshot of the statement claims that Mohamed Aldowale, the Saudi Deputy Minister of Health, stated that the ministry handed over a photo album with photos of 4,173 pilgrims who were killed in Mina accident, and the process of identifying the bodies has started.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Monday released names and other details of those killed and injured during the stampede.
Former Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, took a swipe at the Saudi government for blaming the Mecca tragedy, that killed over 717 people, on Africans on the religious visit.
The Lebanon-based Arabic-language daily Ad-Diyar alleged that the convoy escorting Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, comprising 200 soldiers and 150 police officers, played a central role in the incident, by making a few pilgrims turn around against the flow, which triggered a stampede.
I have travelled to several countries and remember their ambience.
Many other deaths have occurred during Hajj rituals.
Ka’ba (means cube) the black meteor surrounded with a cubic building covered in black shroud in Mecca, around which the pilgrims must hastily orbit seven times, was the center of idols and the annual idol worshiping congregations since the pre-Islam pagan era.
Two of the dead Hajj pilgrims were from flight batch 61 of Jakarta-Bekasi embarkation point, and one was from flight batch 61 of Surabaya embarkation point, he noted. “All of the hospitals in Saudi Arabia and possible locations that were given where the bodies are held have been searched”.
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The source also sent MEE a copy of the report from the coroner’s office in Jeddah, which they said had been obtained while they were in the Red Sea port city. They focused on what they saw as Saudi Arabia’s incompetence in managing the Hajj in general. Once they know their relatives are dead, that’s the end of the story.
