However, concerns loom over the long-term consequences of climate change on the Hajj, with a 2019 study forewarning of increasingly dangerous heat stress levels for pilgrims in the years to come.

Saudi Arabian officials shut illegal pilgrims out of air-conditioned rest areas in Mecca during extreme heat that killed more than 1,000 people on hajj. More than half of the deaths were among ...

Unlike authorized pilgrims ... heat, especially on the second and third days of the Hajj. Some vomited and collapsed. Historically, deaths are not uncommon at the Hajj, which has seen at times ...

Over one thousand pilgrims, including thirteen Pakistani Hujjaj have died during Hajj in Mashair. Quoting Saudi officials ... Besides, the Saudi health system addressed numerous cases of heat stress ...

TASS/. The number of pilgrims who died in Saudi Arabia while performing Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, has exceeded 1,000, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. Meanwhile, the number ...

The Hajj that took place in June last year coincided with scorching heat. Saudi Arabia said over 1,300 pilgrims, mostly undocumented, died after trekking for long distances under the sun.

Four Russian pilgrims ... most often die due to extreme heat. The temperature in Mecca during this year's Hajj reached almost 52 degrees Celsius. 80th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims wrapped up the Hajj in the deadly summer heat on Tuesday with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the ...