A Bowie couple with lifelong dreams to travel to Mecca for Hajj died in Saudi Arabia during this month’s pilgrimage. Alieu Wurie, 71, and Isatu Wurie, 65, were longtime Bowie residents ...

This year about 1.8 million pilgrims arrived in the holy city of Mecca and walked long distances amid a deadly heatwave with temperatures ... on the Plain of Arafat (AP) Hajj, which is an ...

Wednesday marked the beginning of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that brings more than a million observant Muslims to Saudi Arabia every year. Authorities have ratcheted up heat ...

The family of an elderly Indonesian man who died during this year’s Hajj is happy he was buried in the holy city of Mecca, his daughter said, as the Southeast Asian nation mourns hundreds of ...

"When you pick a particular travel agency, rules about getting visas for Hajj have changed recently. Make sure the company you're working with understands that because that will be an indicator ...

LONDON: Analysing the situation in Saudi Arabia where heatwave has claimed lives of 1,300 Hajj pilgrims, a team of European scientists Friday said climate change exacerbated the situation.

As Asian countries reel under heatwaves, the death toll from this year's hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia crossed 1,300. Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun as they ...

woman told 7News she used the same travel company as the Bowie, Md., couple who died in Mecca while taking part in the Hajj earlier this month, and said there were several warning signs ...

So far, 25 male and four female pilgrims from Bangladesh have died during Hajj this year. Of them, 19 died in Makkah, nine in Madinah, and one on Mount Arafat. In the Saudi public hospitals, 19 others ...

While last summer, Hajj coincided with a vicious heatwave, and more than 1,000 pilgrims died as a result of searing temperatures of up to 125 degrees F. The Saudi authorities are said to be hoping ...