The death toll from this year’s Hajj exceeds 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, with unregistered pilgrims making up more than half of those who perished amid intense heat.
The new deaths reported Thursday included 58 from Egypt, according to an Arab diplomat who provided a breakdown showing that of 658 total dead from that country, 630 were unregistered.
Accord to local media reports, at least 21 Bangladeshi pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia this year. Among the deceased, 18 were male and 3 were female. Sixteen of them died in Makkah, four died in Madinah, and one died in Mina.
