Over 2000 Hajj Pilgrims Killed in Mina Stampede

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Alwaght- Over 2000 Hajj pilgrims killed and at least 1,500 injured in Mina catastrophe outside Mecca, head of Iran's Hajj and pilgrimage, Saeed Ohadi said.
The directorate said the injured have been evacuated to four different hospitals in the Mina region on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca.
Mina is where pilgrims carry out a symbolic stoning at the devil by throwing pebbles against three stone walls. It also houses more than 160,000 tents where pilgrims spend the night during the pilgrimage.
During a meeting with senior officials responsible for the pilgrimage in Mina, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who heads the Saudi hajj committee, ordered an investigation into the deadly stampede.
Saudi Arabia's health minister blamed the pilgrims for the deadly incident, saying the tragedy would not have happened if they "had followed instructions."
"Many pilgrims move without respecting the timetables" established by authorities, Khaled al-Falih said, adding that this is the "principal reason for this type of accident," El-Ekhbariya television reported.
"If the pilgrims had followed instructions, this type of accident could have been avoided," he said.
Some two million people are currently in Mecca for this year’s Hajj pilgrimage.
This comes days after a massive construction crane collapsed into Mecca’s Grand Mosque, killing more than 100 people and leaving over 200 others wounded.
Meanwhile, Sa’eed Ohadi, the head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, has said that at least 133 Iranians have been killed and 99 others wounded while 354 pilgrimages haven't returned back to their camps yet.
Elsewhere Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, mentioned the Saudi authorities responsible for the deadly incident, and said they should promptly act to manage the crisis.
“The imprudence on the part of relevant Saudi authorities to provide security for the pilgrims cannot be overlooked,” he said.
The worst hajj-related tragedy, which happened in 1990, killed 1,426 pilgrims in a stampede in an overcrowded pedestrian tunnel leading to holy sites in Mecca.
Since 1987,in 28 years, 8600 pilgrimages have been killed in Hajj rituals that rings the alarm for Muslims around the world but not for the Saudi officials.

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