A stampede on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia left at least 717 people dead and more than 800 injured, in the deadliest tragedy to strike the annual Hajj pilgrimage in a quarter-century. Video from the scene showed bodies strewn across the ground alongside the wounded and weeping in Mina on a narrow road alongside rows of tents housing visitors to the annual hajj, five kilometers east of Mecca. Saudi officials say the incident...
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