Hajj Due to the immense rush during the pilgrimage, there are reports of many pilgrims going missing and being found following a few hours, however. Faisalabad Belonging to Pakistani Citizen Javed Inam Jamarat has reportedly gone missing and has not yet been traced.
According to official data, 62,000 pilgrims from Pakistan have arrived in Saudi Arabia for Hajj 2024.
According to Javed Inam’s family, following pelting the devil with stones, he went missing on his way back to Mina from the metro station and has not been heard from since.
Faizan Javed, the son of 68-year-old missing Pakistani Haji Javed Inam, contacted Independent Urdu and said that more than 24 hours have passed but there was no contact with the father. It happened.’
Faizan Javed said that both his father and mother had left Faisalabad for Hajj on June 5. He was supposed to return to Pakistan on June 28, but he has not been contacted yet.
Faizan said that ‘both my mother and father had left for Hajj and an electric wheelchair was booked for my mother. Father and mother got separated due to rush near metro station in Jamrat on Sunday, following which mother contacted us as father’s number was not reachable.
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“We have tried our best, we have also contacted the Pakistan Hajj Mission to trace the location of the phone to find out where the father is, we have also checked the hospital, but there is no news.”
He further said that no one was picking up the phone on my father’s number before, when I called two hours ago, an Arab picked up the phone and hung up. Mother was waiting for father in Mina camp since yesterday, but he did not reach the camp, today she will leave for the hotel in Makkah.
Mohammad Asjad, an official in the Pakistan Mission in Saudi Arabia who oversees matters related to Hajj, told Independent Urdu that he had checked all the hospitals, but he had not received any information from any hospital.
“Hopefully they will be fine and they will be found soon because if there was a tragedy, it would have been reported by now,” he said.
This is not the first incident that happened during Hajj. Yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Jordan and the Directorate of Operations and Consular Affairs of Immigrants have also stated that 14 Jordanian pilgrims died while performing Hajj and 17 have gone missing.
Similarly, in 2015, more than 2300 Hajj pilgrims were killed due to a stampede during the Hajj rituals, while 100 people lost their lives due to the collapse of a crane in Makkah.
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2024-07-09 17:16:31