More than 1,300 people died during Hajj, many of them after walking in the scorching heat
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83% of the 1,301 fatalities were unauthorized pilgrims who walked long distances in soaring temperatures, the Saudi health minister said.

More than 1,000 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabiaas the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, officials said Sunday.

More than half of the fatalities were people from Egypt, according to two officials in Cairo. Egypt revoked the licenses of 16 travel agencies that helped unauthorized pilgrims travel to Saudi Arabia, authorities said.

Saudi Arabia has not commented on the deaths during the pilgrimage, which is required of every able Muslim once in their life.

  • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
    137·
    4 months ago

    This is like the 5th time i saw the news here, can we just discuss in a single post?

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      362·
      4 months ago

      As the scale increases, it merits further discussion.

      Searching “hajj” and sorting by new, the stories went 14 dead, then 300, then 550, then “hundreds” and now over 1,000.

      But it’s not exactly the same story each time.

      It would be like saying we shouldn’t allow re-posts every time Israel kills innocent Palestinians.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      201·
      4 months ago

      Even though I agree with you as a Lemmy user, unfortunately, as a moderator, I can’t justify deleting posts about already-reported stories because they aren’t against the rules in the sidebar. Exceptions have been made with breaking news stories that are just flooding people’s feeds, but I don’t feel right enforcing an unwritten rule like that in general.

    • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      4 months ago

      This seems like both a feature and a bug with the fediverse. Some topics just fit a lot of subs and then you multiply that by all the Lemmy instances. It seems like the discussions around big topics can really get spread around.