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At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

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2015 Mina stampede

Crowd crush incident in Saudi Arabia

On 24 September 2015, a fatal crowd crush resulted in the death of more than 2,000 individuals, many of whom were suffocated or crushed, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history. Estimates of the number of…
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