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From: bro@eunomia.rice.edu (Douglas Monk)
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Subject: Re: Contacting pilgrims of HAJJ
Summary: A little info. from CNN...
Keywords: contact HAJJ Saudi Arabia
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In article <13833@wpi.wpi.edu> wt01@gte.com (Wasim Tauqir) writes:
>Any reliable news about the tragic deaths of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia
>while performing HAJJ in the tunnel ?

CNN was reporting this morning that foreign diplomats on the scene report
that problems with ventilation equipment in a "pedestrian tunnel" led to
people gasping for air in the 122 degree (F) heat. In the ensuing stampede to
get out, approximately 1400 people died from suffocation and crushing. The
victims were reported to be mostly Malaysians and Indonesians.

I am not clear on where this "pedestrian tunnel" is. Is it the chamber
enclosing Safa and Marwa, the hills between which pilgrims must run as part
of the Hajj (Pilgrimage) rituals? That would account for

The reports remind me of the soccer stadium tragedy in Britain in which a
number of people died trying to get in through a gate in a fence. How many
died there?

Doug Monk
bro@rice.edu

Disclaimer: These views are mine, not necessarily my organization's.