Hajj stampede update: Death toll in Mecca rises to 717 people killed, 863 injured - Yet another bad omen for Saudi Arabia

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Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:24 UTC

A stampede during the Hajj outside of the holy Muslim city of Mecca has claimed about 220 lives and left almost 450 pilgrims injured, Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense Service reported.

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The Directorate of Civil Defense said it has deployed two medical teams in the field for emergency treatment of the victims of the crush.

The crush happened in Mecca's neighborhood of Mina, which traditionally provides temporary accommodation for hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. The ritual of the 'Stoning of the Devil' is performed in a valley surrounding the neighborhood on the night before last day of the Hajj.

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Muslims worldwide are celebrating on Thursday the holy day of Eid al-Adha. An estimated 2 million pilgrims traveled to Mecca for the celebration.

Just two weeks ago over a hundred people were killed in Mecca when a construction crane fell on the crowded the Grand Mosque. The worshipers had gathered in the city ahead of this year's Hajj.

The crush happened at Mecca's neighborhood of Mina, al-Ekhbariya reported, citing civil defense officials.

Update as of 25 Sept: Reports are now indicating that the death toll from the stampede has reached 2,000.

Comment: This is the latest tragedy at the holy Muslim city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, following a recent fire and the collapse of a large crane into the Grand Mosque in Mecca last week, which happened 14 years to the day since 9/11 and the ensuing 'global war on terror', which Saudi Arabia played a major role in.

At least 118 people were killed when the crane, operated by Bin Laden Construction Group (and owned by Osama's brother), was struck by lightning and blown over during a powerful sandstorm on the eve of the Hajj pilgrimage. At the behest of Saudi King Salman, Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) has now been banned from taking on new work, and will have its current projects reviewed.

Some other members of the Bin Laden family were killed in a private jet crash at a UK airport last month, in an incident which "doesn't make sense", according to a pilot who regularly flies into the airport.

Bad omens are piling up for Saudi Arabia...

See also:

SOTT Exclusive: Responding to international criticism, Saudi Arabia claims it has 'quietly absorbed over 2.5 million Syrian refugees'

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Menrva · 2015-09-24T12:51:47Z

The numbers

have gone up. 717 killed, 805 injured.
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Lemuel Gulliver · 2015-09-25T01:03:31Z

Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin..

Go look that up on Google.

The ibn-Saud family were made into "kings" and installed by the British Empire, itself a Satanic cabal, after WWI, on the manufactured "throne" of then-renamed "Saudi Arabia." Previously the whole region was part of the Ottoman Empire.

These thousands of Saudi psychopaths, each and every one of them calling himself a "prince," six thousand of them at the last count, have ripped off their country till it bleeds, and professed hard-line Islam, while in private having wild orgies with hard liquor, prostitutes flown in from Denmark, and every kind of debauchery.

They have widely sponsored terrorism, with the collusion and connivance of US and Israeli oligarchs and Zionists, whose banks accept hundreds of billions of dollars of stolen money-deposits from these "princes."

This is not a secret. Many people and many governments know exactly what these camel-fuckers have been and are up to. The sand is running out on the egg-timer of their life. Soon their evil birds will come home to roost, and there will be a bloodbath.

Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin.

russ · 2015-09-25T08:17:49Z

Poorly written article

Stampede ? What, like elephants? Black Friday shoppers? People pushing to get to the front? or pushing to get out? (due to Life threatening situation) What? What happened? Did all of these men push each other to rush to get tickets? What?
Where were they going? Or running from? I don't get it. Great, now I will have to leave Sott's site and go look it up elsewhere
I refuse to make a comment about dudes killing each other while being religious.

Anyone lose a bunch of kangaroos? They were last seen jumping all over the New York's Justice Department and the DA's office.

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The people who should care, dont. Lets all move on. Unless this clearly dead equine, needs more whipping.

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The Globalists in Government, will ruin more lives without anyone caring about any of it. Its over, move on to the next Globalist ruse. If people...

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A symbolic event, perhaps ? While only "historic", it is still a stock exchange.

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