Saudi Arabia | Death toll tops 1,000 after hajj marked by extreme heat
Saudi Arabia | Death toll tops 1,000 after hajj marked by extreme heat
The death toll from this year's hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.The new deaths reported Thursday included 58 from Egypt, according to an Arab diplomat who provided a b...
The death toll from this year's hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.
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So they make a pilgrimage to honor a god and a thousand people just drop dead. And nobody is like "mm.. that doesn't seem very divine"
Well, I hear Gods have very diverse appetites
The ammount of vitriol displayed in some comments here is a bit sad... Over 1000 people died! Assholes!
Nothing to worry about. God's will.
I guess can't stop that money flowing...
At what point is this circus going to be shut down?
Lol, who cares! That's just hte poors. Anybody worth their salt will be able to afford portable ACs. So what if by 2050 we'll have heat waves of 60C? That just means all the poors will die. It's divine erasure through oil sales. Money is divine.
/s