Ouch! What a sucking picture of the pilgrims who are killed during annual hajj. According to the local media at least 717 people were killed and more than eight hundreds were injured in a stampede at the annual hajj pilgrimage. The crush happened in Mina, a large valley about five kilometers from the holy city of Mecca that has been the site of hajj stampedes in years past.
Mina is where pilgrims carry out a symbolic stoning of the devil by throwing pebbles against three stone walls. It also houses more than 160,000 tents where pilgrims spend the night during the pilgrimage. The Saudi civil defense directorate earlier said at least 863 other pilgrims were injured in the stampede on Street 204 in Mina. It was not immediately clear if some of those previously listed as injured were included in rising death too.
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