Pilgrims on Sunday performed the last major ritual of the hajj, the "stoning of the devil", in western Saudi Arabia as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday.
As one of the world's largest annual religious gatherings wound down, Amman announced that at least 14 Jordanian pilgrims had succumbed to an "extreme heat wave", highlighting the acute physical toll of the annual rites which in recent years have fallen during the oven-like Saudi summer.
