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.
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We need to find a rock that Democrats can parade around!
LOL!
Oh,my. How. Sad...NOT!
Maybe too many marrying their cousins. All males presumably, so that makes 21,000 happy Virgens in Heaven that will not have a man..
They really are stupid people. Kinda like liberals.
The Who were worshipped and I’m sure it wasn’t their main objective. I attended the Who concert at the Pontiac Silverdome in Dec. of ‘75 and there was a crush on the way in that day too but nobody died. It’s pretty much the same mentality with Muslims and their Hajj.
I know Armageddon is about to happen when i see headlines, “Jehovahs Witnesses die in mass stampede”
But Muslims?
Just another normal day.
Ha - I’ve never seen that before
It’s like they have a “fear of missing out”...LOL!
Consanguinity is the cause. Most of the dead and wounded were related.
The House of Saud owns the holy places of Islam & makes money hand over fist from the hajj. Muzzies are obligated & where else are they going to go?
To the Saudi royals this is just the cost of doing business.
LOL
Epic oldie.
“Comment Removed By Moderator” needs its own PING list...
Does it mean they are “martyrs” and they get 72 virgins?
Am I the only one thinking we may not be hearing the truth. Could it be an ISIS or some other group attack? The Saudi’s aren’t know for freedom of the press.
Yes it does, actually.
It’s a start.....
“Mom & Dad stampeded at the Haj & all I got was this lousy t-shirt”
It is also cost of doing the devil’s business. Time to pay the piper.
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