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☆ More than 1,300 people died during Hajj, many of them after walking in the scorching heat
  + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
More than 1,300 people died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi authorities announced Sunday. All but 31 of them were unauthorized pilgrims, according to two officials in Cairo. Egypt has revoked the licenses of 16 travel agencies that helped unauthorized pilgrims travel to Saudi Arabia, authorities said. Those agencies left pilgrims in limbo in Mecca and the holy sites in scorching heat, the newspaper said. AP journalists saw pilgrims fainting from the scorching heat, especially on the second and third days of the Hajj.
Persons: Fahd bin Abdurrahman, Jalajel, Egypt's, Mina Organizations: Sunday, Saudi Health, Saudi, Saudi National Center for Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Locations: Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saudi, Riyadh, Cairo . Egypt, Mecca's Al, Muaisem, Egypt, Ahram, Indonesia, India, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Malaysia, U.S, Islam
☆ Pilgrim Deaths in Mecca Put Spotlight on Underworld Hajj Industry
  + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Emad Mekay | Vivian Nereim | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The deaths of more than a thousand pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the hajj have put a spotlight on an underworld of illicit tour operators, smugglers and swindlers who profit off Muslims desperate to meet their religious duty to travel to Mecca. Some pilgrims this year described watching people faint and passing bodies in the street as temperatures hit 120 degrees or higher. On Sunday, in an interview on state television, the Saudi health minister, Fahd al-Jalajel, said that 83 percent of the more than 1,300 deaths occurred among pilgrims who had not had official permits. “The rise in temperatures during the hajj season represented a big challenge this year,” he said. “Unfortunately — and this is painful for all of us — those who didn’t have hajj permits walked long distances under the sun.”
Persons: Fahd al, ” Locations: Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Saudi
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