Fortyfour Indians were among 362 pilgrims killed in the stampede during the stoning ritual at the Haj.|
List of Indians killed
Updated at 11.20 pm
DUBAI: Fortyfour Indians were among 362 pilgrims killed in the stampede during the symbolic stoning ritual at the Haj in Mecca.
K Rahman Khan, Leader of the Indian Haj Delegation and Deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha told over phone to UNI from Mina that the bodies of some Indians, who included 16 women, have been identified.
More than 1,000 pilgrims including at least 13 Indians were injured in the stampede.
Khan said efforts were being made to contact the relatives of the dead in the Gulf and in India.
He said out of the injured Indians, eight were discharged from hospital after treatment. The toll was likely to rise, he added.
The stoning of Satan is the riskiest episode of the hajj as the pilgrims jostle to make sure their pebbles touch the pillar while the weaker ones risk being trampled on by the masses.
A total of 251 Muslim pilgrims were trampled to death in the 2004 Haj as people panicked during the ritual stoning.
The stoning ritual, which is spread out over three days, marks the final part of the hajj pilgrimage for the more than two million Muslim pilgrims who have flocked to Mecca from around the world.
In 2003, 14 pilgrims, including six women, were killed in a stampede during the first day of the stoning ritual, and 35 died in 2001, while in 1998 the hajj saw 118 killed and more than 180 hurt at Mina.
The deadliest toll of the pilgrimage was in July 1990 when 1,426 pilgrims were trampled or asphyxiated to death in a stampede in a tunnel, also in Mina.
Following a journey made by Prophet Mohammed over 1,400 years ago, the pilgrims this year flocked to the plain of Arafat south of Mina on Monday to pray for mercy in the central rite of Haj.
Before coming to Mina on Tuesday, many spent the night in the sacred site of Muzdalifah where they collected pebbles for the stoning ritual.
Chronology of deadliest incidents during the Haj in Saudi Arabia.
MINA: Major deadly incidents during the Haj pilgrimage over the
past three decades:
2006
January 6: Seventy-six people were killed when a hostel collapses in Mecca.
2005
January 23: Twenty-nine pilgrims were killed as the worst flooding in 20 years hit the Medina region. The previous day, three pilgrims were trampled to death during the stoning ritual in Mina.
2004
February 1: Two hundred and fifty-one pilgrims were killed and at least the same amount injured during the stoning ritual.
2003
February 11: Fourteen pilgrims, including six women, were killed during the stoning.
2001
March 5: Thirty-five pilgrims were killed and many injured during the stoning ritual.
1998
April 9: More than 118 pilgrims were killed and 180 injured in a stampede at Mina during the stoning ritual.
1997
April 15: Three hundred and forty-three killed and 1,500 injured when a gas heater caused a fire at a tent camp in the valley of Mina.
1995
May 7: Three were killed and 99 hurt when a camp caught fire near Mina.
1994
May 24: Two hundred and seventy pilgrims perished in a stampede during the stoning of the devil ritual at Mina.
1990
July 2: One thousand four hundred and twenty-six pilgrims, mostly Asians, were trampled or asphyxiated to death in a stampede in a tunnel in Mina.
1989
July 15: Five Pakistanis were killed and 34 injured following a fire at a tent camp near Mecca.
July 10: One person killed and 16 injured within the Grand Mosque sanctuary in a double attack blamed on 16 Kuwaiti Shiites who were executed later the same year.
1987
July 31: Four hundred and two people killed, including 275 Iranians, according to official Saudi figures, when security forces tried to break up a demonstration by Iranian pilgrims. Saudi Arabia and Iran cut off diplomatic ties on April 24, 1988 and Iranian pilgrims were absent from the Haj until 1991.
1979
December 4: One hundred and fifty-three killed and 560 wounded after Saudi security forces advised by a French paramilitary unit stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca to rescue pilgrims held hostage by Islamist militants for about two weeks.
1975
December: About 200 pilgrims died near Mecca after a propane gas tank exploded in a tent camp.
Helplines in Mina for Indians as well as others to seek information on the Haj stampede.
The numbers
0096625523816
0096625592528,
0096625523815
Fax
0096625572710
List of injured : Mohd Ibnul Hasan (60), Gaya, Bihar, S/o Mohd Zayanul Hasan; Maqsood (55), Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, S/o Nazar; Mannawar Hussain (58), Sant Kabeer Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, S/o Abdul Saqur; Hamza Perchikotel (55), Malappuram, Kerala, S/o Kutyali; Serajuddin (65), New Delhi, S/o Rehmathullah; Husna Bano (55), New Delhi, W/o Sirajuddin; Shahjahan Bano (55), Buland Shahar, Uttar Pradesh, W/o Mohammad shahzad; Tabish Kashmiri (60), Jammu & Kashmir; Kazi Yasin (32), Maharashtra; Begum Jan (50), Andhra Pradesh; Shakira (52), Allahbad, Uttar Pradesh, W/o Haseenuddin; Massiyanam Bi (55), Thane, Maharashtra; Mohammed Shafiq (70), Uttar Dinagpur, West Bengal, S/o Ramzan ALi
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