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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Wasn’t there another event shortly after the crane collapse, a fire perhaps? I was thinking this was the third thing.
The Tea Party put 1,780,000 people into DC on 9/12/09 with no fatalities and no stampede, not even for the toilets. We’re obviously backward.
The Will of Allah.
Previous
2006: 364 pilgrims die in a crush at foot of Jamarat Bridge in Mina
1997: 340 pilgrims are killed when fire fuelled by high winds sweeps through Mina’s tent city
1994: 270 pilgrims die in a stampede during the stoning ritual
1990: 1,426 pilgrims, mainly Asian, die in a stampede in an overcrowded tunnel leading to holy sites
1987: 402 people die when security forces break up an anti-US demonstration by Iranian pilgrims
Death toll now being reported at 717
As long as they were playing Crues’ Shout at the Devil....
Islam is a crutch for the mentally diseased.
So this “Religion of Peace” annually holds an event where hundreds die and it’s apparently not a big deal to them or they’d do what any civilized society would do and find a way to make it safer, and yet when asked to take in a few hundred Syrian refugees that are of the same faith, the country’s answer is “hell, no - where would we put them?”.
Suspicious as hell, I tell you.
Yuk, yuk.
I guess the death count for this one is over 700. So it’s the worst since 1990.
Any word if Obama was injured?
You owe monkeys everywhere an apology.
This reminds me of the lines outside womens restrooms at football stadiums back in the day.
That’s bad.
Seems to be a regular event.
Dancing over a moon rock.
ISIS: If Allah wills, we will kill those who worship stones in Mecca and destroy the Kaaba
The Hadith states:
The Mahdi will rule the world from Jeruselem because Mecca will be Destroyed.
The flourishing state of Jeruselem will be when Medina is in ruins, the ruined state of Medina will be when The Great War comes.”
Good news with breakfast!
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