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PressTV-'Hajj tragedy deaths cross 4,000'
The Saudi government confirms the death toll in the recent Hajj tragedy has reached 4,173, media reports say.
Saudi Vice Minister of Health Hamad bin Muhammad Al-Duweila said on Tuesday that he has received a photo showing that 4,173 pilgrims were killed in the tragic incident in Minda, near the holy city of Mecca, according to some reports.
The Saudi Health Ministry asserted that heat exhaustion and suffocation are to blame for the pilgrims’ death, the reports said.
PressTV? Really? Surely you must be joking.
1.100 or so have been confirmed dead so far with around the similar number missing for now. The numbers keep changing. It will take several more days to get the full picture of this accident.
It is what happened because i just came back from Hajj.
204 is one of the main routes that is supposed to be opened to allow the Hujjaj to travel from Muzdalifha to Jamarat to finish the stoning. The side streets are all supposed to be blocked off such that the passage can continue unabated via the main roads. Someone screwed up and left one street open (there is a little bit of confusion if the street was 216 or 223) which result in the log jam that caused the stampede.
As far as these conspiracy theories about Saudis targeting the Iranians, if you know anything about Mena Camp or have been there before, you know that the camp is divided out by certain countries such that the pilgrims from one country are usually together. This could be an explanation of why more Iranians died than anyone else as the stampede might have occurred in an Iranian dominated area.
No, KSA orchestred this to kill some former Iranian ambassador to Lebanon and 1-2 so-called "scientists" that nobody has heard about before.