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Wed Jun 12, 2024, 05:07 AM Jun 2024

More than 1.5 million foreign Muslims arrive in Mecca for annual Hajj pilgrimage

https://apnews.com/article/saudi-arabia-mecca-hajj-muslims-islam-611f452f9a36b6c7d3cb45a8718f7ab5
(video, photos at link)

More than 1.5 million foreign Muslims arrive in Mecca for annual Hajj pilgrimage

[0:47 min. video at source]

Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca for the Hajj, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale. Saudi officials say more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in Mecca so far. More are expected, and hundreds of thousands of Saudis and others living in Saudi Arabia will also join them when the pilgrimage officially begins on Friday. (AP video by Bassam Hatoum, Baraa Anwar and Rafiq Maqbool).

BY SAMY MAGDY
Updated 4:20 AM EDT, June 12, 2024

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale.

Saudi officials say more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in the country by Tuesday, the vast majority by air, from across the world. More are expected, and hundreds of thousands of Saudis and others living in Saudi Arabia will also join them when the pilgrimage officially begins on Friday.

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