Has been any hajj disaster before 1987?
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Peace.
http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4180965.stm
HAJJ DISASTERS
1987 400 die as Saudi authorities confront pro-Iranian demonstration
1990 1,426 pilgrims killed in tunnel leading to holy sites
1994 270 killed in stampede
1997 343 pilgrims die and 1,500 injured in fire
1998 At least 118 trampled to death
2001 35 die in stampede
2003 14 are crushed to death
2004 251 trampled to death in stampede -
A few years ago I was helping a friend with translations of Arabic documents for her PhD research on Disdter management of Hajj. Although I can't give you any documents names (they were mostly previous researches, exerpts of old Saudi and Arabic newspapers), but disasters happened every year since hajj was documented. Ironically, the worst disasters happened during stoning (apart from natural disasters)! I told her that the best disaster management was to ban stoning!!
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Peace be upon you,
So after this 19 years there will be no more disasters?
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Peace be upon you,
So after this 19 years there will be no more disasters?
Now I understand!
How about these
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Aug. 3, 1980 Pakistani jetliner carrying hundreds of Muslim pilgrims catches fire soon after take-off from Jiddah to Riyadh, Saudi capital, suffocating many as smoke spread through cabin. Aircraft's fuselage collapsed after emergency landing, killing more. A total of 301 people died. Investigators found fire probably caused when passenger lit kerosene stove in aisle to brew tea.
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Nov. 20, 1979 About 1,200 Sunni Muslim extremists storm the Grand Mosque in Mecca in what Saudi officials later said was an attempt to kidnap King Khaled and force him to abdicate. But monarch had stomach ache that day and did not go to mosque as scheduled. Most attackers escaped during the two-week siege, broken when government forces, aided by French commandoes, stormed mosque Dec. 4. Some 75 extremists, including their leader, killed in battle around 38-acre complex. Another 170 captured and many beheaded. Scores of Saudi military personnel also slain.
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Dec. 4, 1974 191 people killed when chartered Dutch DC-8 airliner carrying home Indonesian pilgrims crashes in Sri Lanka.
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Peace be upon you Samia,
Thanks Samia jedi
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Peace.
http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4180965.stm
HAJJ DISASTERS
1987 400 die as Saudi authorities confront pro-Iranian demonstration
1990 1,426 pilgrims killed in tunnel leading to holy sites
1994 270 killed in stampede
1997 343 pilgrims die and 1,500 injured in fire
1998 At least 118 trampled to death
2001 35 die in stampede
2003 14 are crushed to death
2004 251 trampled to death in stampede