With more than 2.5 Million pilgrims in one place to perform Hajj this year, yet again a stampede broke out killing 345 pilgrims and injuring 289 in Mina where all the Hujjaj gather up for the stone throwing ritual over the satan.This is the second incident of hajj this year,previously a builiding collapsed in Mecca on January 5, killing 76 people.Although Saudi government has tried its best to provide the basic infrastructure for the Hujjaj so that they can pass through all the stages of the hajj but the overcrowding factor almost every year kills some of the Hujjaj.
The 345 killed in this incident are mostly from South Asian countries of Afghanistan,India and Bangladesh and one among the dead belongs to Pakistan.
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