Thursday caused a stampede in Mina near Mecca in the first day of Eid al-Adha in the death of 717 people and wounding 863 others were wounded in one of the worst incidents taking place in the pilgrimage season in years.
Since the announcement of the tragic stampede, which is the worst in the pilgrimage season since the 25-year-old accident, the first day of Eid al-Adha holiday death toll to rise did not stop with the fear of aggravation.According to the official Saudi Press Agency Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef ordered the "formation of a supreme committee of inquiry to investigate this incident and its causes and down to find out the truth" and to bring the results of the investigation to the King Salman bin Abdulaziz.
According to an official at the Ministry of Health said the stampede occurred at a time when the Almtuadon pilgrims from around the world since the morning throwing cinder Aqaba in Mina before they start the Tour de old house and then slaughter the sacrifice.
The official told AFP that the incident occurred near a ritual when he tried to leave the crowd of pilgrims, with a large number trying to reach.
The security spokesman for the Interior Ministry Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said "the incident occurred on the road to 204 as a result of the movement of pilgrims heading opposed to 204 on the street at its intersection with the street and 223 in high-density, leading to a stampede."
"The high temperature and fatigue that it was the pilgrims as a result of the effort they put into the previous stage (...) shares in the fall of a number of pilgrims."
But the Saudi health minister Khalid al-Falih attributed the incident to a "lack of commitment" Some of the pilgrims instructions. Falih told the official news channel "if committed all got instructions to such incidents."
He added that "a lot of pilgrims come in out of date Altvoaj and this is the main factor" behind such incidents, announcing the mobilization of the wounded and treated. The minister pledged an investigation "fast and transparent" in the incident.
According to the latest toll of Civil Defense, a stampede killed 717 people and wounded 863 others.
It was not immediately the number of foreigners who were killed in this incident. But the great Mufti Mohammed Turkey Gormez said 18 pilgrims were missing while happy Aouhdi head of Iran's pilgrimage organization announced that ninety Iranian pilgrims died in a stampede.
The Aouhdi told Iranian television that a road was closed "for unknown reasons" near the scene of throwing cinder Aqaba near Mona "causing this tragic incident."
He added that the incident occurred "as a result of mismanagement and a lack of seriousness in dealing with the safety of the pilgrims nor other explanation for it," stressing that "should load Saudi officials accountable."
Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian Foreign in Tehran will summon the Saudi representative in Iran to ask for clarification about the incident.
It showed images posted on the Internet several people lying motionless while the ground littered with personal belongings of shoes and umbrellas used by pilgrims for the prevention of the sun.
Amid the confusion, try elements of relief and security services to organize the evacuation of the bodies on stretchers. According to the pictures, the incident was on the road to asphalt pass between thousands of white tents in Mina focus annually to receive the pilgrims.
A witness said the Sudanese in Mina when the incident occurred that season less organized compared to the three he had previously participated. "It was people suffering from thirst and lose their awareness and claimed the pilgrims stumble over each other."
The authorities sealed off roads leading to the scene of the accident, which occurred at the intersection of two roads promising to facilitate the movement of pilgrims in the valley of Mina, which lies a few kilometers from Mecca.
It has been allocated four hospitals and 220 ambulance and helicopters as part of relief operations.
Outside Washington offered condolences to victims after the stampede "painful" incident. A spokesman for the National Security Council end Bryce said the United States "offer sincere condolences to the families of the hundreds of pilgrims who were killed and hundreds who were injured in the stampede painful accident."
He added, "While the world's Muslims celebrated Eid Al Adha are saddened for the loss of your calamity all those faithful pilgrims."
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was "shocked" by this news, while Turkey and France crossed and European Council President Donald Tusk their solidarity with the victims.
And Saudi Arabia has conducted in recent years, large-scale works to modify the infrastructure in order to facilitate the movement of the crowds and avoid similar tragedies.
The Kingdom has allocated more than one hundred thousand men to protect the security of the pilgrimage this year. Saudi security forces have formed human chains along the roads to regulate the conduct of the pilgrims in the volunteers along the route to provide food boxes and bottles of cold water for the pilgrims.
Before the start of the pilgrimage season Tuesday, which this year includes about two million pilgrims, according to a Saudi statistics, the collapse of a giant crane in the courtyard of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, killing 109 people in September 11.
The aim of pilgrims on the first day of Eid seven stones on cinder major obstacle symbolizing Satan, then in the next two days 21 pebble on the three Jamarat (Grand Central and micro).
And come back another major accident during a pilgrimage to the January 12, 2006 when 364 pilgrims died in a stampede in the same place.
After the stoning ritual on the last day of Hajj, the pilgrims heading to Mecca for the farewell Tawaf around the old house, the last rites of Haj such as travel directly.
Eid al-Adha is celebrated far and about 1.5 billion Muslims around the world.
Saudi authorities have reported that more than 1.4 million foreigners who came to Mecca to perform Hajj and about 600 000 from within the Kingdom.
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