Stampede killed more than 700 pilgrims and injured hundreds on September 24 outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The stampede occurred on Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), Islam's most important feast. The stampede in the valley of Mina has become the biggest that has ever occurred in Saudi Arabia during the Hajj. Images from the site of Mecca crush tragedy - in this gallery by TASS.
Stampede outside Mecca: hundreds killed in tragedy
The stampede in the valley of Mina has become the biggest that has ever occurred in Saudi Arabia during the Hajj
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Stampede killed more than 700 pilgrims and injured hundreds on September 24 outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia
© AP Photo The stampede occurred on Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), Islam's most important feast
© EPA/STR A source at Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense Directorate said that the stampede had been caused by a collision of two flows of pilgrims who were heading from a tent camp for a place of common prayer on the first day of Eid al-Adha
© EPA/STR The crush took place outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca during the Stoning of the Devil ritual
© EPA/DIRECTORATE OF THE SAUDI CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY/HANDOUT A rescue worker attending to a man injured in Mina, Saudi Arabia
© AP Photo The stampede in the valley of Mina has become the biggest that has ever occurred in Saudi Arabia during the Haj
© AP Photo Pilgrim treated by a medic after a stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia
© Directorate of the Saudi Civil Defense agency via AP