Saudi Arabia – Two Arab diplomats reported yesterday, Tuesday, that at the least 323 Egyptian pilgrims had died in the course of the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, most of them for causes associated to excessive temperatures.
One of many diplomats stated in an interview with Agence France-Presse, “All of them died because of the warmth, aside from one one that was fatally injured throughout a easy stampede amongst a crowd of pilgrims,” including that the toll got here from the hospital morgue within the Al-Muaisem neighborhood in Mecca.
The 2 diplomats confirmed that at the least 60 Jordanian pilgrims additionally died, that’s, greater than the official quantity introduced by Amman earlier Tuesday, which amounted to 41 deaths, thus elevating the dying toll to 577, based on an Agence France-Presse depend.
The diplomats added that the entire quantity in Al-Muaisem morgue, the biggest morgue in Mecca, reached 550 our bodies.
One of many diplomats stated that the variety of deaths amongst Egyptian pilgrims has elevated as a result of a lot of them are usually not registered.
Hajj is more and more affected by local weather change, based on a Saudi research revealed final month that stated temperatures within the area the place the rituals are carried out rise by 0.4 levels Celsius each decade. This 12 months, about 1.8 million pilgrims participated, together with 1.6 million from overseas, based on the Saudi authorities.
Yearly, tens of hundreds of individuals attempt to carry out the Hajj with out acquiring official visas as a way to get monetary savings, which makes performing the rituals extra harmful as a result of these unregistered pilgrims can not entry the air-conditioned amenities offered by the Saudi authorities.
Different international locations that reported deaths throughout this 12 months’s Hajj season embody Tunisia, Indonesia, Iran and Senegal.
Supply: AFP
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2024-06-20 14:08:36