According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of people killed during the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, has already risen to over 1,170.
The death toll is expected to rise, as hundreds of people are still listed as missing © Mena Today
According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of people killed during the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, has already risen to over 1,170.
The death toll is expected to rise, as hundreds of people are still listed as missing and many others are hospitalized.
The pilgrimage began at the end of last week and ended earlier this week. Nearly two million Muslims came to pray at the site, and they did so under extreme heat with temperatures at around 52 degrees.
Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday, but Mojtaba, the son who has succeeded him as Iran's supreme leader, did not make an appearance.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a joint appearance with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Istanbul on Saturday to deliver his latest broadside against Israel, warning that the "war-addicted Israeli government must not be allowed to drown our geography in the smell of gunpowder and blood again" and accusing Jerusalem of trying to "dynamite" the US-Iran peace deal.
Tens of thousands filled Tehran's Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla on Saturday to view the coffins of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and family members killed alongside him in the February airstrikes that opened the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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