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 ...

Officials have beefed up heat mitigation measures hoping to avoid a repeat of last year's hajj, which saw 1,301 pilgrims die as temperatures reached 51.8 degrees Celsius (125.2 Fahrenheit).

More than 1.5 million pilgrims joined Islam's most important rite under a beating sun on Wednesday, as the hajj kicked off with the Saudi hosts scrambling to avoid last year's 1,000-plus deaths in ...

As thousands of pilgrims ... Hajj season, death toll exceeded 1,000, according to an AFP tally, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in ...