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Saudi Arabia has suggested that the stampede in Mina, which reportedly claimed at least 700 lives on Thursday, 24 September, 2015, was caused by failure to follow crowd control rules by pilgrims.

More than 700 people died in a stampede that took place near the end of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. What should have been a joyous and holy end to Hajj resulted in tragedy as bodies of the ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of people died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced intense high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, ...

A stampede and crush killed more than 2,400 pilgrims at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia in 2015. Some of the survivors recount their experience: Kauser Parveen of Abbottabad, Pakistan, who said her ...

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AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press ADAM SCHRECK, Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- At least 453 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a stampede Thursday on the outskirts of Mecca, the ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) A horrific stampede killed at least 717 pilgrims and injured hundreds more Thursday on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the deadliest tragedy to strike ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Marching with thousands of other pilgrims at last year's hajj in Saudi Arabia, 23-year-old Sobia Noor of Pakistan felt the crowd get tighter and the air grow thicker ...