Saudi Arabia announced the number of pilgrims who died during Hajj 06:56

More than 1,300 people died during the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Health Minister Fahd bin Abdel Rahman al-Jalajel said. writes about this RIA News.

“During the Hajj, 1,301 pilgrims died of natural causes, more than 83% of whom were not registered,” the head of the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Saudi television channel Al-Ikhbariya.

According to him, 95 pilgrims are under treatment in hospitals. In total, during the Hajj, Saudi Arabian doctors provided emergency medical care to pilgrims 30 thousand times.

The dead were buried in Mecca. The Minister stated that the identities of the dead have been determined; He stated that in some cases, the identification process was delayed because not everyone had documents with them.

Before that, the head of the Russian Hajj Mission, Khizbullah Asuev statedSeven Russians have reportedly died during pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina this year. It was stated that the dead were from Dagestan and Moscow region. Two of them were registered as pilgrims, while the rest had ordinary tourist visas that do not allow performing the pilgrimage.

Previously reportedIt was stated that the number of deaths during the Hajj in Mecca exceeded a thousand.

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Source: Gazeta

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