A stampede during one of the last rituals of the Hajj has killed more than 700 people and injured nearly 900 others in Saudi Arabia.
The stampede occurred الخميس morning during the ritual known as “stoning the devil” in a tent city in Mina, about two miles from the holy site in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city.
This event happened where pilgrims walk way leading to the pillars where pilgrims throw stone (center tents) on the 2nd day of Jamarat ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina near the holy city of Mecca which people locked in stampede.
الخميس’s disaster was the worst to occur at the pilgrimage since يوليو 1990, when 1,426 pilgrims suffocated in a tunnel near Mecca. Both incidents occurred on Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), Islam’s most important feast and the day of the stoning ritual.
