Hundreds of people have died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, with temperatures as high as 51C recorded this week.
Saudi Arabia has not commented on the death toll during the pilgrimage – a ritual that every able Muslim is required to undertake once in their life – nor offered any cause of death for those who have died. However, hundreds of people lined up at the emergency complex in the neighbourhood of al-Muaisem in Mecca, trying to get information about their missing family members.
