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Extreme heat/ Over 550 Muslim believers have died during the pilgrimage to Mecca
Written by SOT.COM.AL 19 Qershor 2024
Hundreds of visitors have died during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca amid scorching heat. According to press and foreign ministry reports, at least 550 people have died on the Hajj. Three hundred and twenty-three of the dead were Egyptians, most of whom died of heat-related illnesses, AFP reported, citing two Arab diplomats.
"All died due to the heat" except for one who suffered fatal injuries during a minor crowd clash, one of the diplomats said, adding that the total figure came from the hospital's morgue in Mecca's Al-Muaisem district.
Thirty-five Tunisian citizens have died during the hajj, the Tunisian news agency "Tunis Afrique Presse" said on Tuesday. Many of those deaths were due to the extreme heat, family members said on social media, while other families continued to search for missing relatives in Saudi hospitals.
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry said it had issued 41 burial permits to Jordanian pilgrims on Tuesday. Earlier, the ministry said at least six Jordanian citizens died of heatstroke during the hajj.
Eleven Iranians have died and 24 have been hospitalized during the pilgrimage, Iran's state news agency IRINN said on Tuesday without giving the cause of death.
Three Senegalese citizens also died during the hajj, Agence de Presse Sénégalaise said on Monday.
144 Indonesian citizens died during the pilgrimage, data from the Indonesian health ministry showed on Tuesday.
Chaos, tent fires and other accidents have caused hundreds of deaths during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia in the past 30 years. Saudi state television said temperatures soared to 51.8 degrees Celsius in the shade at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on Monday.
The Hajj is an annual pilgrimage that millions of Muslims make to Mecca to perform the religious rites as taught by the Prophet Muhammad to his followers 14 centuries ago.
The Hajj, one of the world's largest mass gatherings, is a once-in-a-lifetime task for able-bodied Muslims who can afford it. The pilgrimage began on Friday and ends on Wednesday. More than 1.8 million pilgrims were expected to attend this year, according to the Saudi General Authority for Statistics.