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After 1,300 people died during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, witnesses and experts say high temperatures and difficulties with crowd control made the event dangerous.
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".
At least 1,301 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage that took place during an exceptional heatwave in Saudi Arabia, according to an official death toll.. This year about 1.8 million ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
On 6 June 2020, the Indian Hajj Committee announced it would provide refunds to all the pilgrims who were unable to attend Hajj in 2020. [38] [39] On 11 June 2020, Malaysia announced it was barring pilgrims from attending Hajj in 2020 out of concerns over the danger of COVID-19, and the high spreadability of the virus in crowded places. [40] [41]
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.