Sweltering heat amid soaring temperatures has claimed the lives of a whopping 550 pilgrims during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca. At least 323 of the dead were Egyptians, diplomats have said.
Talking to AFP, the two Arab officials said that the pilgrims succumbed to heat-related illnesses. “All of them (the Egyptians) died because of heat” except for one who sustained fatal injuries during a minor crowd crush, one of the diplomats said, adding the total figure came from the hospital morgue in the Al-Muaisem neighbourhood of Mecca.
