Mecca: Saudi Arabia deployed large numbers of security reinforcements Saturday as pilgrims performed the final rituals of a hajj marred by double tragedy, with the death toll from a stampede rising to 769. The kingdom's leaders have ordered an inquiry into the disaster the deadliest to strike the annual Muslim pilgrimage in a quarter-century and a "revision" of its organisation, with the deaths raising tensions with regional rival Iran as well. Dozens of emergency workers were seen on one level of Jamarat Bridge, a five-storey structure in Mina where pilgrims ritually stone the devil, and on which hundreds of thousands were converging when Thursday's stampede...
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