A minimum of 14 Jordanian and 5 Iranian pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia throughout the nice annual hajj pilgrimage, which takes place in insufferable warmth, the authorities of their international locations introduced at this time, with out specifying the causes of their deaths.
The annual hajj pilgrimage, one of many 5 pillars of Islam, started on Friday in Mecca, western Saudi Arabia, with greater than 1.8 million worshippers, most of whom have come from overseas.
This yr it’s growing in the summertime, in one of many hottest areas of the world the place the thermometer reached 46 levels Celsius yesterday, Saturday.
Saudi authorities haven’t launched the variety of circumstances of hyperthermia amongst pilgrims, however final yr there have been greater than 10,000 circumstances, in accordance with them, 10% of which have been circumstances of heatstroke, which is probably the most severe.
“Fourteen Jordanian pilgrims died and 17 others are lacking throughout the hajj rituals,” the Jordanian Overseas Ministry stated at this time, in accordance with a press release carried by the official Petra information company.
“The ministry is monitoring, along with the related Saudi authorities, the procedures for the burial of the pilgrims and the switch of the our bodies of these whose households want to be transported to the dominion,” he added, clarifying that searches are persevering with to seek out the 17 lacking pilgrims.
The top of the Iranian Purple Crescent, Pirhossein Koulivant, stated for his half that “5 Iranian pilgrims misplaced their lives (…) in Mecca and Medina throughout this yr’s hajj.”
Particulars of the circumstances of the deaths of those pilgrims weren’t instantly obtainable.
All Muslims should make the pilgrimage to Mecca at the very least as soon as of their lifetime if they will afford it. Hajj consists of a collection of rituals which can be accomplished over 4 days.
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