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Related: About this forumMore than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50C
At least 323 of those who died were Egyptians, most of them succumbing to heat-related illnesses, the two Arab diplomats coordinating their countries responses told AFP.
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 that the total figure came from the hospital morgue in the Al-Muaisem neighbourhood of Mecca.
At least 60 Jordanians have died, the diplomats said, up from an official tally of 41 given earlier on Tuesday by Amman.
The new deaths bring the total reported so far by multiple countries to 577, according to an AFP tally.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/18/hundreds-of-hajj-pilgrims-die-in-mecca-from-heat-related-illness
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 that the total figure came from the hospital morgue in the Al-Muaisem neighbourhood of Mecca.
At least 60 Jordanians have died, the diplomats said, up from an official tally of 41 given earlier on Tuesday by Amman.
The new deaths bring the total reported so far by multiple countries to 577, according to an AFP tally.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/18/hundreds-of-hajj-pilgrims-die-in-mecca-from-heat-related-illness
Saudi state TV said temperatures rose on Monday as high as 51.8 degrees Celsius (125.2 Fahrenheit) in the shade at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/soaring-temperatures-scorch-pilgrims-haj-saudi-arabia-2024-06-18/
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/soaring-temperatures-scorch-pilgrims-haj-saudi-arabia-2024-06-18/
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muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2024
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lastlib
(24,901 posts)1. Religion and heatstroke make a bad mix.....
Methinks it's kinda dumb to want to serve a sky-daddy that blindly.......OMMV......
Fullduplexxx
(8,254 posts)2. Lol you think god resides in the sky
lastlib
(24,901 posts)4. No, but its followers do.
Personally, I'm more of a Spinozan.
Fullduplexxx
(8,254 posts)3. Now would that be considered suicide?
erronis
(16,825 posts)5. I wish all xians would also travel to Death Valley to celebrate their loving/caring lord.
I'd keep this up with all of these murderous religions. Modi in India has perverted a usually peaceful one into a killing machine. And we all know how Islam has been perverted to serve power.
Voltaire2
(14,700 posts)6. God Swill.
edhopper
(34,773 posts)7. Why did Mohammed
schedule this in the middle of the Summer?
muriel_volestrangler
(102,473 posts)8. The Islamic calendar is lunar, so the time of (solar) year moves
It's 10 or 11 days earlier each year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj#Timing_of_Hajj
edhopper
(34,773 posts)9. Did not know that
the Hebrew calendar is also lunar, but the holiday dates are kept withing a month's period each year.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,473 posts)10. I believe the Hebrew calendar is technically called "lunisolar"
since it mixed Moon and Sun periods, over time.