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Latest report: 133 Iranians dead, 99 injured, 354 missing after Mecca stampede

Society Materials 26 September 2015 13:08 (UTC +04:00)
For the present, 133 Iranians have died, 99 got injured, and 354 have been confirmed as missing in the wake of September 24 stampede in the Mina area around Saudi Arabia’s Mecca, the latest report by Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization said September 26
Latest report: 133 Iranians dead, 99 injured, 354 missing after Mecca stampede

Tehran, Iran, September 26

By Mehdi Sepahvand -- Trend:

For the present, 133 Iranians have died, 99 got injured, and 354 have been confirmed as missing in the wake of September 24 stampede in the Mina area around Saudi Arabia's Mecca, the latest report by Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization said September 26.

Said Owhadi, the director of the organization said ten teams have been tasked with examining the conditions of the situation and investigating the casualties and the missing.

The official said the Saudi government prevents any entrance for the identification of the dead bodies.

He added that as the cell phones of the missing people have been lost during the incident, it is difficult to locate those people.

This year some 61,000 Iranian pilgrims are in Saudi Arabia for Hajj rituals.

Earlier this month, the pilgrims saw another deadly incident, the collapse of a construction crane inMecca which killed more than 100 people and injured at least 200.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has declared three days of national mourning following the catastrophe.

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