Skip to comments.
Stampede kills hundreds at Hajj pilgrimage
kmbc.com ^
| September 24, 2015
| Faith Karimi and Schams Elwazer
Posted on 09/24/2015 4:08:14 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
(CNN) —A stampede during one of the last rituals of the Hajj season -- the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca -- has killed more than 300 people and injured 450 others in Saudi Arabia.
The stampede occurred Thursday during the ritual known as "stoning the devil" in the tent city of Mina, about 2 miles from Mecca, Islam's holiest city.
Hundreds have been killed in past years during the same ceremony.
"We have a stampede accident in Mina, and civil defense is dealing with it," said Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, an Interior Ministry spokesman.
The ministry said the latest death toll is 310, but the numbers have been climbing steadily. Officials deployed 4,000 workers and 220 ambulances and other vehicles to Mina to help with the disaster.
In the ritual, crowds of pilgrims throw stones at three pillars, in a re-enactment of an event when the Prophet Abraham stoned the devil and rejected his temptations, according to Muslim traditions.
The ceremony was the scene of stampedes and hundreds of deaths in the 1980s and 1990s as pilgrims passed a crowded bottleneck area leading to the small pillars on the ground.
In 2006, a stampede there killed at least 363 people.
(Excerpt) Read more at kmbc.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hajj; mecca; saudiarabia; snackbar
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-80, 81-100, 101-120, 121-135 next last
To: ilovesarah2012
If we built a monument to Tea Pot Dome maybe the Dem/RINOs would stampede a few of themselves to death in religious fervor...
101
posted on
09/24/2015 6:29:07 AM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: ilovesarah2012
Seems like every year they have a stampede or several and people get killed.
==
A stampede at a holy shrine. Why?
102
posted on
09/24/2015 6:29:22 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: ilovesarah2012
Who do I have to talk to to make this hajj thing a daily occurrence ?
To: ilovesarah2012
You people are all sick and insensitive. I am ashamed of being a member her. Would someone please spare a thought for the 3000 grieving widows left behind!
104
posted on
09/24/2015 6:37:06 AM PDT
by
alstewartfan
(Even when I cannot see him I can feel it in my bones That he's still there. Trespasser by Al Stewart)
To: Einherjar
To think that one of those practitioners of peace might have become our president one day! So sad.....
105
posted on
09/24/2015 6:45:18 AM PDT
by
alstewartfan
(Even when I cannot see him I can feel it in my bones That he's still there. Trespasser by Al Stewart)
To: alstewartfan
“please spare a thought for the 3000 grieving widows left behind!”
And all those goats too.
5.56mm
106
posted on
09/24/2015 6:47:40 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: alstewartfan
To: mrsmith
108
posted on
09/24/2015 7:00:24 AM PDT
by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
To: mrsmith
109
posted on
09/24/2015 7:01:40 AM PDT
by
JEDI4S
(I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
To: xp38
Would is be considered bad form to say thanks for the good news?
110
posted on
09/24/2015 7:02:09 AM PDT
by
bigredkitty1
(March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
To: rollo tomasi
Man oh man, that is demonic looking!
111
posted on
09/24/2015 7:33:53 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: ilovesarah2012
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of retards.
112
posted on
09/24/2015 7:35:49 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
To: alstewartfan
I see what you did there. :-)
113
posted on
09/24/2015 7:36:05 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: ilovesarah2012
Reminds me of the ol' joke - What do you call 300+ Muslims killed in a stampede?
A good start.
To: rollo tomasi
Looks like a Black Hole
115
posted on
09/24/2015 8:00:31 AM PDT
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: cripplecreek
To: ilovesarah2012
117
posted on
09/24/2015 9:14:00 AM PDT
by
Chuckster
("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
To: rollo tomasi
Looks like someone flushing a square turd to me.
How fitting.
118
posted on
09/24/2015 9:19:19 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: ilovesarah2012
Jeepers...this happens EVERY year!
To: ilovesarah2012
120
posted on
09/24/2015 10:06:51 AM PDT
by
Zathras
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-80, 81-100, 101-120, 121-135 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
