Safety measures were in place at the site -- one where fatal stampedes have been frequent -- but "caution isn't stronger than fate," Saudi Hajj Minister Iyad Madani said. The tragedy marked the ...

In 2001, 35 people died in a stampede during the devil stoning ritual, while in 1998, some 180 died. In the worst Hajj-related disaster, 1,426 people died in 1990 during a stampede in a tunnel ...

Saudi Arabia has never acknowledged the full toll of the stampede. A separate crane collapse at Mecca’s Grand Mosque earlier the same year killed 111. The second-deadliest incident at the Hajj ...

Catastrophic deaths at Hajj are not new. A stampede in 2015 killed more than 2,200 people, and another stampede in 1990 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The tragedy happened during one of the last rituals of Hajj. Story by Allan Smith and editing by Jeremy Dreyfuss Follow INSIDER: On Facebook More from International ...

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Saudi Arabia has never acknowledged the full toll of the stampede. A separate crane collapse at Mecca’s Grand Mosque earlier the same year killed 111. The second-deadliest incident at the Hajj ...

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Egyptian worshippers pray during a memorial for the victims who were killed in a stampede during the hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Saudi Arabia, at the Omar Makram mosque, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday ...

Fears of a repeat of the 2015 disaster in which a stampede killed 2,300 people during the Hajj have also "spurred" officials to "crack down" on the "off-the-books pilgrims", said France 24.