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The health minister of Saudi Arabia said at least 1,301 died during the pilgrimage. [2] [7] Of the dead, at least 600 were Egyptian pilgrims. Jordanian diplomats stated that 60 Jordanians also died from extreme heat. [8] Tunisia's foreign ministry reported that at least 35 Tunisian pilgrims died during "a sharp rise in temperatures".
Last year, at least 240 people died but cause of the death wasn’t specified. And in the worst Hajj disaster, a deadly crush in 2015 killed more than 2,000 people.
The annual Muslim pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca that wrapped up last week became a death march for over 1,300 Hajj participants who died in temperatures that climbed above 124 degrees ...
More than 1,300 people died during the Hajj pilgrimage to Islamic holy sites in Saudi Arabia this year, as temperatures soared well into the triple digits, the Saudi health minister said Sunday.
By 2029, the Hajj will occur in April, and in the next several years after that it will fall in the winter, when temperatures are milder. A 2015 stampede in Mina during the hajj killed over 2,400 pilgrims, the deadliest incident to ever strike the pilgrimage, according to an AP count. Saudi Arabia has never acknowledged the full toll of the ...
The average daily wet-bulb temperatures during Hajj between 1979 and 2019 exceeded the US National Weather Service danger threshold of 24.6 °C (76.3 °F) on 38 days, nearly half of which took place in 2015–2019. The study also showed that Hajj pilgrims from countries with colder average temperature were 4.5 times more likely to die than ...
Hajj (pilgrimage) has been cancelled 40 times through the history of Islam due to disease outbreaks, political disagreements, and battles. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] In 930-940 CE (318-328 AH), Hajj was canceled due to the Qarmatian attack , which led to the murder of 30,000 pilgrims and the looting of the Black Stone .
The heatwave in Saudi Arabia blamed for the deaths of 1,300 people on the haj pilgrimage this month was made worse by climate change, a team of European scientists said on Friday. The heat would ...