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The full dying toll in the course of the Hajj season this 12 months has risen to greater than 900 individuals, whereas many are nonetheless trying to find their relations and buddies who went lacking in the course of the Hajj pilgrimage.
In keeping with Agence France-Presse, “The variety of deaths amongst Egyptian pilgrims has risen to a minimum of 600, after a earlier toll reported the dying of a minimum of 323 Egyptians.”
The company reported, “Egyptian officers have acquired 1,400 experiences of lacking individuals to this point,” including that “all new deaths had been attributable to the warmth.”
In keeping with the company, “The variety of deaths amongst Egyptians raises the whole dying toll in the course of the Hajj season this 12 months to a minimum of 922. Along with Egyptians, this quantity consists of 132 Indonesians, 68 Indians, 60 Jordanians, 35 Tunisians, 13 from the Kurdistan area of Iraq, 11 Iranians, and three Senegalese.”
An Asian diplomat in Saudi Arabia instructed Agence France-Presse: “We now have about 68 confirmed deaths amongst Indian pilgrims, a few of them from pure causes as there have been many aged pilgrims. Some died attributable to climate situations.”
He added: “This occurs yearly. We can not say that this quantity is abnormally excessive this 12 months,” saying: “It’s considerably much like final 12 months, however we are going to know extra within the coming days.”
One other Arab diplomat instructed Agence France-Presse, “Jordanian officers are trying to find 20 lacking pilgrims, noting that 80 others had been present in hospitals after they had been lacking.”
In the meantime, a supply on the Russian Consulate Normal within the metropolis of Jeddah instructed Novosti Company, “4 Russian pilgrims died whereas performing the Hajj in Mecca,” and the supply indicated, “The causes of dying had been pure and associated to their well being and age, and they are going to be buried in Mecca.”
The Saudi Ministry of Well being introduced that “2,764 circumstances of warmth exhaustion had been recorded, attributable to excessive temperatures within the holy websites, publicity to the solar, and failure to stick to pointers.”
The temperature initially of this week reached 51.8 levels Celsius in Mecca, and final 12 months greater than 200 pilgrims, most of them from Indonesia, carried out the pilgrimage.
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