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Hajj disaster: How more than 1,300 pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia as authorities failed to act
Omar*, an Egyptian in his 40s, considers himself a lucky survivor of Hajj. More than a thousand people, most of them Egyptians, have died of extreme heat during the annual pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia this month. Survivors and witnesses say the fatalities …