Facebook and other social media networks have been flooded with pictures of the missing and requests for information.
RIYADH - Friends and family of missing haj pilgrims searched hospitals and pleaded online for news on June 19, fearing the worst after hundreds died during the annual rites in Saudi Arabia.in 2024, the majority due to heat-related illnesses after temperatures reached 51.8 deg C in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city.
The searchers include family and friends of Egyptian pilgrim Ghada Mahmoud Ahmed Dawood, unaccounted for since June 15. 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”.
“Some because of natural causes and we had many old-age pilgrims. And some are due to the weather conditions, that’s what we assume,” he said.
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