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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I want rights to the concession stand.
“I survived the Haj”.
I guess clock boy wasn’t there yet with his Islamist father...
“A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.” — Game of Thrones
Praise be to Allah !
The 4:00 P.M. Bus to Sweden is about to depart!
So.. new seats have opened up in the clockmaking class?
moslems killing moslems.
Funny, you don’t see stampedes killing hundreds during “Passion” events.
What a bunch of fools.
Oh how I love happy endings...
ROFL
Gosh, who could have seen that coming?
What a shame.....
I’m proud. First time I had a comment removed by the mods.
It was the will of allah.
I’m jealous.
Wouldn’t you love to see what all the “comment removed by moderator” said?
Now, this.
God is making His preferences known.
LOL
Yes. Yes I would.
Slow learners
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