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The 2023 Makkah hotel fire occurred on May 19, 2023, when a fire took place in a hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The central hotel tower, which is the Makkah Clock Royal Tower, is the fourth-tallest building and sixth-tallest freestanding structure in the world. [7] The clock tower contains the Clock Tower Museum that occupies the top four floors of the tower.
The fire erupted in the overcrowded tent city, Mina, where an estimated two million Muslim pilgrims were gathered on for the first day of the Hajj, the ritualistic pilgrimage to Mecca. The fire erupted at 11:45 a.m. , [1] and was caused by exploding canisters of cooking gas, according to witnesses. The fire was fanned by winds of nearly 40 ...
Free Fire Max is an enhanced version of Free Fire that was released in 2021. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] It features improved High-Definition graphics , sound effects , and a 360-degree rotatable lobby. Players can use the same account to play both Free Fire Max and Free Fire , and in-game purchases, costumes, and items are synced between the two games. [ 73 ]
Mina (Arabic: مِنَى, romanized: Minā), nicknamed the "City of the Tents," [1] [2] is a valley located 8 kilometres (5 miles) southeast of the city of Mecca, in the district of Masha'er, Province of Makkah in the Hejazi region Saudi Arabia.
15 April 1997: 343 pilgrims were killed and 1,500 injured in a tent fire. [15] The tents are now fireproof. 13 February 2002: Forty Hajj pilgrims from the UAE died when the bus they were traveling in collided head-on with a truck in Saudi Arabia's Al Ihsa province. 1 November 2011: Two pilgrims, a wife, and husband, died in a coach fire.
The Clock Tower Museum is a museum which occupies the top four floors of the Abraj Al Bait clock tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. [1] The museum, located at the highest point in Makkah, is operated by the Misk Foundation, a non-profit organization established by Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman.
The Grand Mosque seizure, also known as the siege of Calamity, was a siege that took place between 20 November and 4 December 1979 at the Grand Mosque of Mecca, the holiest Islamic site in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.