
More than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approaching 52C in Mecca
More than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approaching 52C in Mecca The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, with more than half of the victims unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia. The new deaths reported on Thursday included 58 from Egypt, according to an Arab…