HAJJ STAMPEDE

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It is now estimated that two hundred and seventy people may have died in the stampede involving Muslim pilgrims from around the world during the annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

It is now estimated that two hundred and seventy people may have died in the stampede involving Muslim pilgrims from around the world during the annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
International news agency, Reuters came out with the figure based on data collated through state and religious authorities and local media reports in the home countries of the victims. With the latest revelation; the hajj stampede last month will go into records as the worst tragedy involving Muslim pilgrims in the holy land, after an incident in 1990 where one thousand, four hundred pilgrims were crushed in a tunnel. The Saudi authorities had put the death toll from the stampede near Mecca at seven hundred and sixty-nine people.

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