RIYADH: Friends and family of missing Haj pilgrims searched hospitals and pleaded online for news on Wednesday (Jun 19), fearing the worst after hundreds died during the annual rites in Saudi Arabia. Arab diplomats on Tuesday told AFP
RIYADH: Friends and family of missing Haj pilgrims searched hospitals and pleaded online for news on Wednesday , fearing the worst after hundreds died during the annual rites in Saudi Arabia ., the majority due to heat-related illnesses after temperatures reached 51.8 degrees Celsius in Mecca, Islam's holiest city.
"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."Facebook and other social media networks have been flooded with pictures of the missing and requests for information. Its timing is determined by the Islamic lunar calendar, shifting forward each year in the Gregorian calendar.
It includes 323 Egyptians and 60 Jordanians, said the Arab diplomats who briefed AFP on the figures, one of whom noted that nearly all the Egyptians died"because of heat". Saudi Arabia has not provided information on fatalities, though it reported more than 2,700 cases of"heat exhaustion" on Sunday alone.An aerial view of Mecca's Grand Mosque with the Kaaba during the annual haj pilgrimage. 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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