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Hajj Stampede

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Today’s topic: Hajj Stampede
1, Al Jazeera - Iran supreme leader slams Saudi Arabia over stampede
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/iran-slams-saudi-arabia-hajj-stampede150924140959859.html
2, Reuters - Pope expresses closeness to world's Muslims after haj stampede
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/25/us-saudi-haj-pope-idUSKCN0RO2QK20150925
3, RT - Mecca stampede: 717 people killed, 863 injured in Hajj crush (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
http://www.rt.com/news/316363-saudi-stampede-haj-mecca/
4, CNN - 717 people dead: What caused the deadly stampede at the Hajj?
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/25/middleeast/hajj-pilgrimage-stampede/index.html
5, teleSUR - Biggest Tragedy in 25 years: Over 700 killed in Stampede near Mecca
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Iran supreme leader slams Saudi Arabia
over stampede
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blames "mismanagement" for deadly crush
during Hajj, as he announces three days of mourning.
24 Sep 2015 20:35 GMT | Politics, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Iran
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blamed mismanagement by Saudi Arabian authorities for a deadly
stampede that left more than 700 pilgrims dead, including at least 90 Iranians.
The country's supreme leader declared three days of mourning to mark the tragedy in comments
published by the state news agency IRNA.
"The government of Saudi Arabia must accept the huge responsibility for this catastrophe,"
Khameini said of the incident, which also left at least 863 people injured.
Earlier, the deputy foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Saudi's envoy to Tehran would
be summoned to the foreign ministry.
The head of Iran's Hajj organisation, Said Ohadi, said that, for "unknown reasons," two paths had
been closed off near the site of a symbolic stoning of the devil ritual where the stampede occurred.
"This caused this tragic incident," he said on state television, according to the Associated Press
news agency.
The names of all Iranians killed in the stampede were read out in a sombre live broadcast in Tehran
by a spokesman for the Hajj organisation.
Ohadi said the path closures had left only three routes to the area where the stoning ceremony was
held in Mina, about 5km from Mecca.
'Lack of serious attention'
"Today's incident shows mismanagement and lack of serious attention to the safety of pilgrims,"
said Ohadi.
"There is no other explanation. The Saudi officials should be held accountable."
Abdollahian also accused Saudi officials of "tactlessness" over the lack of safety measures at the
Hajj.
"We can in no way be indifferent to this irresponsible behaviour of Saudi Arabia. This will be dealt
with through diplomatic channels," he said on state television.
Saudi Health Minister Khaled alFalih has blamed undisciplined pilgrims for the tragedy, saying it
could have been avoided if they had "followed instructions."
Iran has set up a special headquarters at the accident site to support Iranian pilgrims.
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Speaking during a packed evening prayer service at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, the
Argentine pope said he wanted to express "my sentiments of closeness in the face of the
tragedy that their people suffered today in Mecca."
"In this moment of prayer, I unite myself with you all in prayer to God, our father, all powerful
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A stampede during the Hajj outside of the holy Muslim city of Mecca has
claimed about 717 lives and left 863 pilgrims injured, Saudi Arabia’s Civil
Defense Service reported.
220 ambulances and 4,000 rescue workers were deployed in the field for
emergency treatment of the victims of the crush.
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The crush happened in Mecca’s neighborhood of Mina, which traditionally
provides temporary accommodation for hundreds of thousands of pilgrims.
The ritual of the ‘Stoning of the Devil’ is performed in a valley surrounding
the neighborhood on the night before last day of the Hajj.
The stampede happened in a street separating two pilgrim camps, Al
Jazeera reported from the scene.
"The street is named Street 204. This stampede did not happen during the
Stoning of the Devil ritual, which was happening today," correspondent
Basma Atassi said.
Street 204 is one of the two main arteries in Mina leading through the
camp at Mina to Jamarat Bridge, where the Stoning of the Devil ritual is
performed.
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The incident happened near an exit from a monorail train station near the
tent camps. The camp sector houses pilgrims from Gulf nations, who
apparently are the majority among the victims.
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Following the incident, Saudi King Salman ordered an investigation and
demanded a review of the kingdom’s plans for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
The comments were made during a speech broadcast by Saudi‐owned al‐
Arabiya television.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Saudi Arabia of
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mismanagement, calling for three days of mourning after the names of
ninety Iranians who died in the stampede were read out in a public
broadcast, IRNA news agency reported.
“The government of Saudi Arabia must accept the huge responsibility for this
catastrophe,” Khameini said.
The head of Iran’s Hajj organization, Said Ohadi, revealed more details
about the catastrophe, saying that for “unknown reasons” two roads had
been closed off near the site where the stampede occurred. “This caused
this tragic incident,” state television quoted him as saying.
Muslims worldwide are celebrating on Thursday the holy day of Eid al‐
Adha. An estimated 2 million pilgrims traveled to Mecca for the
celebration.
Just two weeks ago over a hundred people were killed in Mecca when a
construction crane fell on the crowded Grand Mosque. The worshipers had
gathered in the city ahead of this year’s Hajj.
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Mina has seen a number of fatal stampedes over the years. In 1990 over
1,400 pilgrims died in a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leading out of
Mecca towards Mina, one of the most catastrophic of such incidents.
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Mecca towards Mina, one of the most catastrophic of such incidents.
A number of stampedes happened on the Jamarat Bridge. The death of
almost 350 pilgrims in 2006 finally prompted Saudi Arabia to conduct
reconstruction of the bridge to avoid such tragedies.
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The Al‐Ma'aisim tunnel stampede is the worst single such incident,
although the Thursday tragedy in Mina appears to be the second‐deadliest
during the Hajj. Other countries have suffered high death tolls over crowd
control failures as well.
About 1,000 Shiite believers were killed in Baghdad in 2005 during a
stampede at the Al‐Aaimmah Bridge over the River Tigris. The crowd of
pilgrims was marching toward the Al Kadhimiya Mosque when panic
spread over rumors of an imminent suicide bombing attack.
India is infamous for human stampedes during religious festivities. One of
the deadliest such incidents happened in 1994 during Kumbh Mela
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the deadliest such incidents happened in 1994 during Kumbh Mela
pilgrimage, which claimed some 800 lives. The high number of fatalities
was caused by a combination of the River Ganges changing course,
reducing the available space for pilgrims, and the heavy presence of
politicians using the gathering to campaign among their electors.
In Europe the worst‐ever crush, with a recorded death toll of around 1,300,
was in Khodynka Field near Moscow in 1896, when the Russian Empire
celebrated the crowning of Tsar Nicholas II. Mementoes to the subjects
were offered by the royal family, but the authorities utterly failed in their
distribution. When rumors spread among the half‐million‐strong crowd
that some of the gifts had been embezzled and a shortage had occurred,
the people rushed to the tents to grab whatever was left.
An incident painfully similar to the Khodynka tragedy in both its cause and
the resulting public outrage happened in Sunderland, England, in 1883.
After a children’s variety show in Victoria Hall, an estimated 1,100 children
rushed out to receive promised treats, creating a bottleneck at the exit
doors. The crush resulted in the deaths of 183 children.
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What caused the deadly stampede at the Hajj? CNN.com
717 people dead: What caused the deadly
stampede at the Hajj?
By Holly Yan, CNN
 Updated 1247 GMT (1947 HKT) September 25, 2015
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13 photos: Hundreds killed in Hajj stampede
Saudi emergency personnel stand near bodies of Hajj pilgrims at the site of a stampede September 24,
near Mecca, Islam's holiest city. Thursday morning's stampede killed hundreds during one of the last rit
Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage.
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The stampede took place in Mina, where
worshippers symbolically throw rocks at the
devil
Some say timing, heat and pilgrims going in
opposite directions may have contributed to
the deaths
For full coverage in Arabic, please visit CNN Arabic.
(CNN)—Bodies piled upon bodies. A few people still
moving while others appear lifeless. Rescue workers
struggling to reach those still alive by pulling the dead
out of the way.
A day after a deadly crush killed 717 people during the
Hajj in Saudi Arabia, a critical question remained
Friday: What caused the chaotic stampede?
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Saudi officials are trying to figure out what went
horribly wrong this week during the annual Islamic
pilgrimage to Mecca and Mina. Some who made the journey said various factors may have played a role.
Too many people, too little time
More than 2 million Muslims from around the world are in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, a pilgrimage that all
Muslims who have the financial and physical ability must make at some point in their lives. Many save for
decades to make the journey.
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And the millions of people must perform a litany of rituals in five days, including the symbolic stoning of the
devil in Mina, about 2 miles away from Mecca.
That's where Thursday morning's deadly stampede took place, killing 717 people and injuring about 900
more. Thursday was day three of the five-day Hajj.
"There's so little time to complete the rituals," Hajj pilgrim Ethar El-Katatney said.
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Journalist Khaled Al-Maeena said he believes pilgrims rushing to finish could have been the main reason
for the stampede.
"People like to do the first stoning in the morning," he told CNN from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
At the stoning ritual in Mina, pilgrims hurl rocks at three walls and pillars called the Jamarat in a reenactment of when the Prophet Abraham stoned the devil to reject his temptations.
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Extreme heat and exhaustion
The journey is physically grueling enough on its own.
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But with temperatures soaring over 43 degrees
Celsius (110 degrees Fahrenheit), anyone who
succumbs to the elements might collapse and never
recover, El-Katatney said.
"I was out for a couple of hours just kind of taking
photos, recording. And just two hours standing in
the sun makes you so dizzy and so incredibly faint,"
she said from Mina.
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"But regardless, people were still continuing to ...
their ritual, where the stampede happened."
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El-Katatney said the sight of the carnage was simply
"horrendous."
"It's literally a pile of bodies of people who ... pushed, they shoved, they panicked, they screamed," she
said. "It was hot, someone fell, others trampled and they got stampeded."
El-Katatney said she talked to some of the men who were caught in the mayhem.
"They told me how if you fell, if you weren't strong enough to withstand the pushing and shoving ... if you
fell, you weren't going to get up again."
Crushed from opposite directions
El-Katatney said pilgrims were trying to push their
way in opposite directions -- some headed to the site
of the stoning, some coming back from their
previous ritual.
"As our group started to head back, taking Road
204, another group, coming from Road 206,
crossed our way," said another worshipper, Ahmed
Mohammed Amer.
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8 photos: The Hajj: Muslims gather for
annual pilgrimage
"Heavy pushing ensued. I'm at a loss of words to
describe what happened. This massive pushing is
what caused the high number of casualties among
the pilgrims."
After the stampede, it took hours for rescue workers
to try to tend to all those trampled.
"The ambulances, the sirens were overwhelming," El-Katatney said. "For hours and hours, you could hear
them constantly."
Inexperience and confusion
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Even though Saudi officials are extremely versed in
hosting Hajj crowds, many of the pilgrims are
making the journey for the first time and might not
be prepared to follow all directions or handle the
chaos.
"If any mistake happens -- if a group makes the
wrong turn -- that will cause a disaster," Jamal
Khashoggi of Saudi Arabia's El Arab TV told CNN on
Friday. "And that's exactly what happened
yesterday."
Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, the Saudi Interior
Ministry's security spokesman, hinted that the
problem may have stemmed from some pilgrims not
following established guidelines, the Saudi Press
Agency reported.
And novice pilgrims might try to "go on their own, or
try to take a shortcut," Khashoggi said.
A deadly history
Hundreds of other pilgrims have been killed during
the same ceremony in years past. But Thursday's
disaster was the deadliest at Mina since 1990, when
1,426 people died.
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The latest calamity also came 13 days after a crane
collapse killed more than 100 people at another
major Islamic holy site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
After a stampede during Hajj killed 363 people in
2006, the Saudi government erected three massive
pillars and completed a $1.2 billion, five-story bridge
near the site where pilgrims can toss stones.
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pilgrimage stampede 02:46
But after the latest mass tragedy, many are
wondering what more can be done to prevent
another disaster.
5 things to know about the Hajj stampede
CNN's Yousuf Basil, Merieme Arif, Faith Karimi, Arwa Damon, Kristi Ramsay and Jason Hanna
contributed to this report.
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Saudi authorities said another 850 people were injured as massive crowds pushed at Mina, near Mecca.
Saudi officials Thursday updated the death toll of the people who were killed in a stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage to more than 700. The
tragedy occured just outside the holy city of Mecca, where over 2 million people were performing the annual Islamic pilgrimage.
The Saudi civil defense said that 850 other people were injured in the crush caused by massive crowds pushing at Mina. Mina is where pilgrims
carry out a symbolic stoning of the devil by throwing small rocks against three stone walls. It also houses more than 160,000 tents where pilgrims
spend the night during the pilgrimage.
Medical staff carry away a wounded pilgrim following a crush caused by large numbers of people pushing at Mina, outside the Muslim holy city of
Mecca September 24, 2015. | Photo: Reuters
Ethar ElKatatney @etharkamal
At least 220 dead & 450 injured in Mina today. They've postponed the time we go to perform the ritual #hajj 10:24 AM 24 Sep 2015 · Makkah Al Mukarrama,
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All is clear in Jamraaat and Mina.People are being shifted to hospitals in Makkah.People are still doing Rami and going to Makkah
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AP reported that officials released photos of the tragedy showing rescue workers in orange and yellow vests helping the wounded onto stretchers
and loading them onto ambulances near some of the white tents.
Farzana Malik @farazanaamalik
At least 150 pilgrims killed, 400 injured in crush at #Mina outside city of #Mecca, Saudi's alEkhbariya TV reports 10:00 AM 24 Sep 2015
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Todays’s stampede is on its way to become the deadliest in more than 25 years. In 1990, 1,426 pilgrims were killed in a stampede in an
overcrowded pedestrian tunnel leading to holy sites in Mecca.
Ethar ElKatatney @etharkamal
Finally arrived at Mina. ambulances everywhere. news that 150+ people have died today of the heat & the crowds #hajj 10:22 AM 24 Sep 2015 · Makkah Al Mukarrama,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ‫ﺍﻟﺳﻌﻭﺩﻳﺔ‬ ‫ﺍﻟﻌﺭﺑﻳﺔ‬ ‫ﺍﻟﻣﻣﻠﻛﺔ‬
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CCTV Africa @cctvnewsafrica
At least 150 pilgrims have been killed in a crush at Mina, outside the Muslim holy city of #Mecca #MeccaStampede 10:01 AM 24 Sep 2015
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Today's tragedy comes just weeks after the collapse of a construction crane in Mecca that killed more than 100 people and injured at least
200.
Officials have launched an investigation into the cause of the collapse amid claims the proper safeguards were ignored in the race to complete
developments surrounding the Grand Mosque, including one for a 10,000bed hotel. Muslims are bound by the religious duty to complete the hajj
– one of the five pillars of Islam – at least once. The rituals are aimed at clensing the soul and promoting bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood
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