Hajj heat deaths

Hundreds have died during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where temperatures rose to around 52 degrees Celsius.

A man is carried away on a stretcher during the hajj pilgrimage — Image: FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images

A heat wave in Mecca, the holiest city of Islam, has killed hundreds of people who were attending the Hajj, an annual pilgrimage attended by around 1.8 millions Muslims.

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