High winds, 10 days ago, toppled a massive crane that smashed into Mecca’s Grand Mosque and killed at least 107 people, including 11 Indians.
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A total of 17 Egyptian pilgrims have reportedly died due to “health issues”, according to an Egyptian mission in Saudi Arabia monitoring the health status of the Egyptians flocking into the kingdom to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
The Hajj has been nearly incident-free for the past decade but 108 people, including foreign pilgrims, died earlier this month when a construction crane fell on Makkah’s Grand Mosque.
One problem was that of “pauper” pilgrims who made the Hajj but could not afford to travel home.
Saudi security officers monitor live feed screens showing Muslim pilgrims in the holy city of Mecca. It was in a cave in this rugged, rocky peak overlooking the holy city of Mecca that Muslims believe the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet when he was 40 years old.
More than 3,000 Civil Defence personnel have been deployed in Mina to oversee the safety and security of the pilgrims against any emergency hazards.
Saudi officials are also requiring immunizations against seasonal influenza, meningococcal meningitis, poliomyelitis and yellow fever. The rest – 700 pilgrims – went to Mecca via licensed private agencies.
Al-Turki acknowledged that this year the kingdom saw the most terrorist acts since 2003, when al-Qaida unleashed a wave of bombings that lasted for three years until its militants were driven out to Yemen where they remain active.
The ministry reported that around 168,600 Indonesian pilgrims were in the city.
But while its significance in the Islamic world is well known, it also became a major but lesser known feature of British imperial culture.
A letter reporting from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the Mecca pilgrimage that researchers have found to be one of Britain’s oldest package holidays. He said their claims of having a province or state in Saudi Arabia is nothing more than online propaganda.
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Authorities said all the forged copies were seized after stopping a vehicle that was carrying them.
