MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) – Thousands of Muslim pilgrims rushing to complete a symbolic stoning ritual during the hajj tripped over luggage Thursday, causing a crush in which at least 345 people were ...

MINA – Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, emir of Makkah and adviser to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and chairman of the Central Haj Committee, visited the scene of stampede in Mina. Some 717 ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia — A horrific stampede killed at least 717 pilgrims and injured hundreds more Thursday on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the deadliest tragedy to ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia -- At least 453 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a stampede Thursday on the outskirts of Mecca, the deadliest tragedy to strike the annual hajj pilgrimage in more ...

Mina stampedeOfficials deployed 4,000 workers, along with 220 ambulances and other vehicles to Mina in response to the disaster. Unfortunately, incidents like this can happen in an instant. And it ...

Muslim pilgrims gather around the victims of a stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. Hundreds were killed and injured, Saudi authorities said.

The Sokoto State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has said that Sheikh Liman Dan-Ata, the Chief Imam of the Sultan Abubakar III Jumaa'at Mosque, Sokoto, is among those killed in the stampede in Mina, Saudi ...

The Saudi Health Ministry on Thursday said the official death toll from last week’s stampede during a pilgrimage in Mina, Saudi Arabia, remains at 769. Other countries, including Iran, are ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia, March 5 -- -- A headlong rush of pilgrims at the annual hajj pilgrimage crushed 35 Muslims to death today during the symbolic stoning of the devil ritual, the official Saudi ...

Hazardous HajjMAY 1994 270 pilgrims die in a stampede at the “stoning of the devil” APRIL 1997 A fire caused by a gas heater at a Mina camp kills 343 APRIL 1998 A stampede during the stoning ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) – A horrific stampede killed at least 717 pilgrims and injured hundreds more Thursday on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the deadliest tragedy to ...