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More than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50C
The Guardian ^ | 18th June 2024 | AFP

Posted on 06/18/2024 9:24:18 PM PDT by Cronos

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To: ealgeone

Same. Since those halcyon days, Lyme disease and Rheumatoid arthritis have done their damage.


61 posted on 06/19/2024 4:42:20 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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Relatives scoured hospitals and pleaded online for news, fearing the worst after temperatures hit 51.8 degrees Celsius (125 Fahrenheit) in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, on Monday.

About 1.8 million people from all over the world, many old and infirm, took part in the days-long, mostly outdoor pilgrimage, held this year during the oven-like Saudi summer.

An Arab diplomat told AFP that deaths among Egyptians alone had jumped to “at least 600”, from more than 300 a day earlier, mostly from the unforgiving heat.

That figure brought the total reported dead so far to 922, according to an AFP tally of figures released by various countries.

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240619-relatives-search-missing-saudi-arabia-hajj-death-toll-tops-900


62 posted on 06/19/2024 5:05:26 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life

Well, they died doing what their religion told them was their duty.


63 posted on 06/19/2024 5:23:41 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: doorgunner69

“Imagine the stench of all those overheated savages”

Having had a reeking to high heaven, prayer-carpet toting man sit next to me an entire flight after he boarded on my flight’s enroute stop in Detroit, I have no trouble whatsoever remembering that horrendous stench and thinking about the effect of that stench multiplied by 550. Me thinks that alone could knock out a crowd. \


64 posted on 06/19/2024 6:07:08 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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They are acclimated to the strong smells that we in the West are not used to.


65 posted on 06/20/2024 9:08:22 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Palio di Siena

Sheena was a man ...


66 posted on 06/20/2024 9:14:03 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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1,300 ‘most vulnerable’ Hajj pilgrims died from heat wave in Saudi Arabia

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/06/23/eg-1301-die-in-hajj/4471719181744/


67 posted on 06/23/2024 10:28:51 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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