Facebook and other social media networks have been flooded with pictures of the missing and requests for information.
A pilgrim using an umbrella as a shield from the sun, during the annual haj pilgrimage, in Mina, Saudi Arabia, on June 16.
An Arab diplomat told AFP that deaths among Egyptians alone had jumped to “at least 600“, from more than 300 a day earlier, mostly from the unforgiving heat. “She’s an old lady. She was tired. She was feeling so hot, and she had no place to sleep,” he said. “I looked for her in all the hospitals. Until now, I don’t have a clue.”
A member of the Saudi security forces preventing people from approaching, as a man affected by the scorching heat lies on the ground in Mina, near Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca, on June 16. PHOTO: AFP According to a Saudi study published in May, temperatures in the area are rising 0.4 deg C each decade.
Saudi Arabia has not provided information on fatalities, though it reported more than 2,700 cases of “heat exhaustion” on June 16 alone.Each year, tens of thousands of pilgrims attempt to perform the haj through irregular channels as they cannot afford the often costly official permits.
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