Incidents during the Hajj

There have been numerous incidents during the Hajj,

the Muslim pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, that have
caused loss of life. Every follower of Islam is required
to visit Mecca during the Hajj at least once in his or
her lifetime, if able to do so; according to Islam, the
pilgrimage is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. During
the month of the Hajj, Mecca must cope with as many
as three million pilgrims.[1]

Plane travel makes Mecca and the Hajj more

accessible to pilgrims from all over the world. As a
consequence, the Hajj has become increasingly
crowded. City officials are required to control large
Plains of Arafat on the day of Hajj, c. 2003.
crowds and provide food, shelter, sanitation, and
emergency services for millions. Despite these efforts,
incidents have still occurred.

Contents
Crushes and failures of crowd control
Fires
Protests and violence
Airplane crashes related to the Hajj
Disease
Middle East respiratory syndrome
COVID-19
Notable disease outbreaks
Construction failures
2006 Al Ghaza hotel collapse
2015 crane collapse
Other fatal events
Pickpocketing
Sexual abuse and miscarriages
Official responses
References
External links

Crushes and failures of crowd control

Sometimes the dense, surging troupes, trekking from one station of
the pilgrimage to the next, cause a stampede, or more precisely, a
progressive troupe collapse. At densities above six[2] to seven[3]
persons per square meter, individuals cannot move, groups are
swept along in waves, individuals jostle to find breath and to avoid
falling and being trampled, and hundreds of deaths can occur as a
result. The Stoning of the Devil (ramī aj-jamarāt) ceremony is
particularly crowded and can be dangerous. Pilgrims ritualistically
throw pebbles at three walls (formerly pillars before 2004) which
represent the three places where the Hadiths describes how the Stoning of the Devil, 2006
devil tempted Abraham. It is one of a series of ritual acts that is
performed during the Hajj.

Some notable incidents include:

2 July 1990: A crush inside a pedestrian tunnel (Al-Ma'aisim tunnel) leading out from Mecca
towards Mina and the Plains of Arafat led to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims, many of them of
Malaysian, Indonesian and Pakistani origin.[4][5]
23 May 1994: A crush killed at least 270 pilgrims at the Stoning of the Devil ritual.
9 April 1998: At least 118 pilgrims were trampled to death and 180 injured in an incident on
Jamaraat Bridge.[6]
5 March 2001: 35 pilgrims were trampled to death in a stampede during the Stoning of the
Devil ritual.[7]
11 February 2003: The Stoning of the Devil ritual claimed 14 pilgrims' lives.[8]
1 February 2004: 251 pilgrims were killed and another 244 injured in a stampede during the
stoning ritual in Mina.[9]
22 January 2005: A stampede through the stoning ritual in Mina led to the killing of three
pilgrims[10]
12 January 2006: A crush during the Stoning of the Devil on the last day of the Hajj in Mina
killed at least 346 pilgrims and injured at least 289 more. The incident occurred shortly after
13:00 local time, when a busload of travelers arrived together at the eastern access ramps to
the Jamaraat Bridge. This caused pilgrims to trip, rapidly resulting in a lethal stampede. An
estimated two million people were performing the ritual at the time.
24 September 2015: At least 2,236[11] pilgrims were killed during a crush. The Saudi
government has yet to release an official report. An Associated Press (AP) report compiled
from official reports and statements totaled the deaths at at least 1,470, over 700 more than
the figures from Saudi authorities, and the worst toll so far in Mecca.[12] The AP later
updated its estimate to 2,411 pilgrims killed.[13]

Fires
December 1975: An exploding gas cylinder caused a fire in a tent colony and resulted in the
deaths of 200 pilgrims.[14]
15 April 1997: 343 pilgrims were killed and 1,500 injured in a tent fire.[15] The tents are now
fireproof.
13 February 2002: Forty Hajj pilgrims from the UAE died when the bus they were traveling in
collided head-on with a truck in Saudi Arabia's Al Ihsa province.
1 November 2011: Two pilgrims, a wife, and husband, died in a coach fire. There were two
coaches in the convoy, and a person in the second coach noticed smoke billowing from the
 coach in front. He radioed the driver to stop. Everybody evacuated the coach, and as the last
two were getting out, the coach suffered three explosions.

Protests and violence

692: The siege of Mecca occurred when Umayyad general Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf besieged
Mecca on 25 March 692. The city was bombarded using catapults and continued during the
Hajj rituals. It resulted in the Kaaba being damaged. It was then rebuilt again.[16]
924: The Hajj caravan returning from Mecca to Iraq is attacked and destroyed by the
Qarmatians.[17]
925: The Hajj caravan setting out from Kufa is stopped by Qarmatian attacks and forced to
return to Iraq.[18]
930: On the first day of Hajj, Qarmatian leader Abu Tahir al-Jannabi led an attack on Mecca
and set about massacring the pilgrims. While killing pilgrims, he taunted them with verses of
the Koran as they did so,[19] and verses of poetry: "I am by God, and by God I am ... he
creates creation, and I destroy them". About 30,000 pilgrims were killed. The bodies of the
pilgrims were left to rot in the streets or were thrown down the Well of Zamzam. The Kaaba
was looted, houses were plundered, and slaves seized. He removed the Black Stone and it
was in his possession for 21 years.
1502: The Mira, a ship carrying Hajj-pilgrims returning from Mecca was set ablaze on the
orders of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. Around 300 pilgrims were killed.[20]
1695: On 7 September, pirates led by Henry Every hijacked Grand Mughal vessels which
were making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The pirates then subjected their captives to
several days of horror, raping and murdering prisoners at will, and using torture to force them
to reveal treasure.[21] Some of the women committed suicide by jumping into the sea.[22]
1757: The 1757 Hajj caravan raid was the plunder and massacre of the Hajj caravan of
1757 on its return to Damascus from Mecca by Bedouin tribesmen. An estimated 20,000
pilgrims were killed as a result of the raid.
1926: On 18 June 1926 Egyptian soldiers playing music while escorting the mahmal, were
confronted by angry Najdis, who disliked the mahmal as an innovation and considered
music un-Islamic. The Egyptians fired on them, killing 25.[23]
In 1986, a group of Iranian pilgrims were caught with C4 explosives in their bags. Later
investigation sparked theories that the explosives were put there by Iranian authorities.[24]
31 July 1987: A clash between Iranian demonstrators and Saudi security forces led to the
deaths of more than 400 pilgrims and thousands injured.
9 July 1989: Two bombs exploded, killing one pilgrim and wounding another 16. The
perpetrators were from Kuwait and most of them were later executed.[25]

Airplane crashes related to the Hajj

22 January 1973: A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 crashed at Kano, Nigeria, killing 176 Hajj
pilgrims returning from Mecca.
4 December 1974: Martinair Flight 138 crashed near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing all 191
people aboard – 182 Indonesian hajj pilgrims bound for Mecca, and 9 crew members.
15 November 1978: Icelandic Airlines Loftleiðir HF Flight LL 001 crashed at Colombo, Sri
Lanka, killing 175 (mostly Indonesian) Muslim pilgrims returning from the Hajj and 8 crew
members.
26 November 1979: Pakistan International Airlines Flight 740 had an in-flight fire and
crashed after takeoff from the old Jeddah International Airport on 26 November 1979 killing
all 156 on board the Boeing 707.
 19 August 1980: Saudia Flight 163 had a cargo compartment fire shortly after take-off from
Riyadh airport. All 287 passengers and 14 crew on board the Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar,
registration HZ-AHK, died after the aircraft made an emergency landing.
11 July 1991: Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 (operated by Nationair) was a chartered
passenger flight from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Sokoto, Nigeria which had an in-flight fire
and crashed shortly after takeoff from King Abdulaziz International Airport, killing all 247 Hajj
pilgrims and 14 crew members on board the DC-8.
7 April 1999 Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 was a flight from Adana, Turkey to Jeddah. The
plane was supposed to pick up returning pilgrims, but crashed shortly after takeoff. All 6
occupants on board, who were crew members, were killed.

Disease
Mingling of visitors from many countries, some of which have poor health care systems still plagued by
preventable infectious diseases, can lead to the spread of epidemics. If an outbreak were to occur on the
road to Mecca, pilgrims could exacerbate the problem when they returned home and passed their infection
on to others. This was more of a problem in the past. One such disease, which has prompted response from
the Saudi government, is meningitis as it became a primary concern after an international outbreak
following the Hajj in 1987. Due to post-Hajj outbreaks globally of certain types of meningitis in previous
years, it is now a visa requirement to be immunised with the ACW135Y vaccine before arrival. Every year,
the Saudi government publishes a list of required vaccines for pilgrims, which for 2010 also included
yellow fever, polio, and influenza.[26][27]

Middle East respiratory syndrome

As of 9  September  2013, the Saudi government asked "elderly and chronically ill Muslims to avoid the
Hajj this year" and restricted the numbers of people allowed into the country due to Middle East respiratory
syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).[28][29] Although MERS-CoV was not detected among pilgrims, this
does not rule out risk of the disease at Hajj.[30] The disease, though, is only mildly contagious.

COVID-19

The spread of the COVID-19 prompted the Saudi Arabian government to discourage people from planning
for the Hajj in 2020. On 21 April, the Saudis announced that there would be no public attendance at
Taraweeh in Mecca or in Medina.[31]

Notable disease outbreaks

During the 1821 Hajj, about 20,000 Meccan pilgrims died due to a cholera epidemic. The disease had
started in India in 1817.[32]

Another cholera epidemic began in 1863. It started in the Ganges Delta of the Bengal region and traveled
with Muslim pilgrims to Mecca during the 1865 hajj. In 1905 the El Tor strain of cholera was discovered in
six pilgrims returning from Hajj at the El-Tor quarantine camp in Egypt.

In 2009, 73 cases of H1N1, which is also known as swine flu were recorded at the final days of Hajj. 5
pilgrims died due to the virus.[33]
Construction failures

2006 Al Ghaza hotel collapse

A concrete multi-story building located in Mecca close to the Grand Mosque collapsed on 5 January 2006.
The building, the Al-Ghaza Hotel, is said to have housed a restaurant, a convenience store, and a hotel. The
hotel was reported to have been housing pilgrims to the 2006 Hajj. It is not clear how many pilgrims were
in the hotel at the time of the collapse. As of the latest reports, the death toll was 76 and the number of
injured was 64.[34]

2015 crane collapse

A crane fell in the grand mosque on 11 September 2015, ten days before Hajj, causing 111 deaths and 394
injuries.

Other fatal events

Of the millions of pilgrims each year, many are elderly, and some die of their illnesses, exacerbated in some
cases by the heat and exertion (for example, in the 1927 pilgrimage season, at least 1,500 pilgrims died[35]).

On 25 November 1908, the passenger-cargo ship SS Sardinia caught fire off Malta's Grand
Harbour and ran aground, resulting in at least 118 deaths. Most of the casualties were
Moroccan pilgrims on their way to Mecca.[36][37]
On 21 May 1930 the Fabre Line's SS Asia, having brought 700 Algerian pilgrims to Mecca
for the Hajj and then loaded some 1,500 pilgrims, c. 1,200 of them Yemenis returning to
Aden and c. 300 from French Somaliland returning to Djibouti, caught fire in Jeddah harbour.
At least 112 pilgrims died, possibly many more.[38]
Before the beginning of the first day of the December 2006 Hajj, 243 pilgrims had died,
according to a statement by the Saudi government.[39] The majority of deaths were
reportedly related to heart problems, exhaustion in the elderly and people with weak health,
caused by the heat and tiring physical work involved in the pilgrimage. After the conclusion
of the Hajj, the Nigerian government reported that 33 nationals had died mostly "as a result
of hypertension, diabetes and heart attack", not due to epidemic illnesses, and rejected
assertions that Nigerian pilgrims died in an accident on a road to Mina.[40] Egypt's official
news agency has reported that by 30 December (10 Dhu al-Hijjah), 22 Egyptian pilgrims
had died.[41] Four elderly Filipino pilgrims in their 50s died during the pilgrimage of illnesses
or other 'natural causes', and were buried in Mecca.[42] The Pakistani Hajj Medical
Commission has announced that approximately 130 Pakistani pilgrims died during the Hajj
season in Saudi Arabia, "mostly aged and victims of pneumonia and heart patients", and
that 66 pilgrims were admitted to Saudi hospitals for similar ailments.
In early December 2006, a coach carrying pilgrims from holy sites in Medina to Mecca
crashed 55 miles north of the port of Rabegh near Jeddah, killing 3 Britons and injuring 34
others, including two children.[43]
In 2009, 77 pilgrims performing Hajj were killed due to floods.[44]
In November 2011, thirteen Afghans died and a dozen others were wounded as a result of
illness and traffic accidents.[45]

Pickpocketing
Of late, pickpocketing has created numerous problems for Hajj pilgrims. According to the Save Madina
Foundation, 321 were victims of pickpocketing during Hajj in 2010.[46]

Sexual abuse and miscarriages

Female pilgrims have spoken up about sexual abuse experienced on the Hajj through a movement called
the Mosque Me Too movement.[47][48] Using the hashtag #MosqueMeToo, which stems from the Me Too
movement which used the hashtag #MeToo, Muslim women have shared their experiences online about
sexual abuse in Mecca.[49][50][51]

Many pregnant pilgrims suffer from miscarriages due to performing the hajj. In 2011, 20 pregnant women
performing the pilgrimage had miscarriages due to exhaustion.

Official responses
Critics say that the Saudi government should have done more to
prevent such tragedies. The Saudi government insists that any such
mass gatherings are inherently dangerous and difficult to handle,
and that they have taken a number of steps to prevent the problems.
The fatalities in the largest tragedy in September 2015 are alleged
to have been downplayed by the Saudis by as many as 1,700.[13]

One of the biggest steps, which is also controversial, is a new

system of registrations, passports, and travel visas to control the
flow of pilgrims. This system is designed to encourage and The Saudi government has created a
accommodate first-time visitors to Mecca, while restricting repeat CCTV network to oversee security
visits. Pilgrims who have the means and desire to perform the Hajj during the event.
several times have protested what they see as discrimination, but
the Hajj Commission has stated that they see no alternative if
further tragedies are to be prevented.

Following the 2004 stampede, Saudi authorities embarked on major construction work in and around the
Jamaraat Bridge area. Additional accessways, footbridges, and emergency exits were built, and the three
cylindrical pillars were replaced with concrete walls to enable more pilgrims simultaneous access to them
without the jostling and fighting for position of recent years. The government has also announced a
multimillion-dollar project to expand the bridge to five levels; the project was planned for completion in
time for the 1427 AH (Dec. 2006 – Jan. 2007) Hajj.[52]
Following the 2006 incident, the Jamaraat Bridge
and the pillars representing Satan were demolished and reconstructed. A wider, multi-level bridge was built,
and massive columns replaced the pillars themselves. Now, each level of the bridge allows easier and safer
access to the columns representing Satan. In addition, the stoning ceremony must be carried out according
to pre-determined schedules to prevent over-crowding and the attendant risks. The Jamaraat basin has been
expanded from its current circular shape into an oval to allow better access to the pillars. The new
arrangements provide for separate access and departure routes.[53]
However, a security breakdown is
mentioned as cause for the 2015 stampede.[54] A group of pilgrims who had cast their own stones and were
returning to their camp, instead of taking the route designated for returning pilgrims, they took the route
meant for those who were coming and crossed the other group of pilgrims heading straight to the
jamaraat.[54][55][56]

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