Mecca Stampede: Sushma Swaraj tweets helpline numbers for pilgrims

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Sep 24, 2015, 07:20 PM IST

Saudi emergency personnel and Hajj pilgrims carry a wounded person at the site where at least 450 were killed and hundreds wounded in a stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015.

Atleast two Indian pilgrims have been reported injured in the stampede.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that action is being taken to help all Indian pilgrims stuck in the Mecca stampede. Swaraj is currently in Washington.

Sushma also tweeted the MEA helpline numbers.

We will provide all help to Indian nationals.Two of our officials have reached the site of accident. We are in constant touch with them.
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) September 24, 2015

Our emergency Nos in Mecca : 00966125458000 00966125496000 Toll free number for pilgrims in Saudi Arabia : 8002477786
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) September 24, 2015

At least 717 people of different nationalities were killed and over 860 others, including two Indians, injured in a stampede today when Haj pilgrims jostled their way to perform symbolic stoning of the devil here, marking the culmination of the annual pilgrimage.