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At the very least greater than 500 pilgrims have died in the course of the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. An estimate based mostly on official information offered by the authorities of the international locations from which the pilgrims got here, however the true determine can be greater than a thousand deaths resulting from excessive temperatures, greater than 49 levels centigrade, based on native sources cited by CNN. In actual fact, to the five hundred officers, the roughly 600 Egyptian pilgrims who died on the best way to Mecca because of the excessive warmth and which Cairo appears to be attempting to determine as a result of they could not have registered formally earlier than they go away.

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have but to launch an official demise toll amongst pilgrims. In actual fact, what’s unknown is precisely the class of pilgrims who weren’t formally registered by the authorities of their nation earlier than they left to meet what represents one of many seven pillars of Islam.

Anyway, based on the authorities of every nation, no less than 14 Malaysian residents, 165 Indonesians, 75 Jordanians, 35 Pakistanis, 49 Tunisians, 11 Iranians and 98 Indians died. One other 27 Jordanians are in hospital and round 14 are nonetheless lacking, the International Ministry in Amman stated.