Hundreds have died in chaotic scenes at the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, as temperatures in the Saudi Arabian desert soared above 50C. More than 550 people have now been confirmed dead after this year’s ...

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A husband and wife from Bowie, Maryland, had always dreamed of making the Hajj to Mecca. Their family says they were among more than 1,000 people who died on the annual five-day pilgrimage to Saudi ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims used the early morning hours Monday to perform the second day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, hoping to escape the noontime summer heat that caused ...

Hajj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, and more than 2 million Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca each year, including from Connecticut. Khalid and Yasmin Kapadwala made the trek, leaving their ...

CAIRO — More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi authorities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year’s pilgrimage attracted 1,673,230 Muslims, the majority of them from outside Saudi Arabia, according to an X post from ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental ...