Death toll tops 1,000 after hajj marked by extreme heat
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The death toll from this year's hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.The new deaths reported Thursday included 58 from Egypt, according to an Arab diplomat who provided a b...

The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.

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  • Visstix@lemmy.world
    122·
    6 months ago

    So they make a pilgrimage to honor a god and a thousand people just drop dead. And nobody is like “mm… that doesn’t seem very divine”