Death toll raised to 717 due to stampede in Manna



Saudi authorities have not yet identified the victims.
More then 700 have been passed away in the most crowded religious gathering in Makkah Saudi Arabia . According to the authorities more then 717 people of different nationalities have been dead so far in this horrible rib caging incident.

On Thursday, Saudi civil defense officials in his message on the social networking site Twitter has confirmed that more then 816 pilgrims have been injured too. The incident happened in Manna, which is located 5 kilometers away from Mecca. Saudi Arabia's civil defense department spokesman said the accident occurred when pilgrims throw pebbles for stoning Street No. 204 and 223 were present at the crossroads  

According to reports on the presence of a large number of pilgrims stampede caused by the conflict in which many pilgrims fell to the ground and died from being crushed.Saudi authorities have not yet identified the victims in the money unless asufu tcyma BBC correspondent says the death toll in Nigeria, Chad and Senegal is linked to the large number of pilgrims.The Iranian news agency IRNA said 43 of the dead were Iranians.According to witnesses of the accident asufu unless they were going to stone pebbles hitting the pilgrims in front of them come. He was an atmosphere of chaos and suddenly they began to collapse.According to him, people were climbing over each other trying to get to safety, and therefore many people died.The BBC's Bashir Sa'ad Abdullahi described the scene of the accident while the mini downtown area where the bodies were laid off by the police. So far as the eye can see, but the bodies are kfnayy.

 

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