Atleast over 700 pilgrims were reportedly killed and scores injured in a stampede considered the deadliest disaster at the 2015 Hajj, since the 1990 tragedy that claimed more than 1,400 lives after panic broke out among crowds inside a tunnel.
The stampede happened on Thursday, September 24, when two large groups of pilgrims who were preparing for one of the last major rites of their trip met on a major intersection, outside in the Mina valley, a few miles outside Mecca, where a camp of 160,000 tents fills with millions of visitors.
Rescue workers raced to the scene to offer first aid and load the most critically injured people into rescue helicopters and hundreds of ambulances.
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