Saudi Arabia | Death toll tops 1,000 after hajj marked by extreme heat - eviltoast

The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.

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  • Visstix@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    So they make a pilgrimage to honor a god and a thousand people just drop dead. And nobody is like “mm… that doesn’t seem very divine”

  • dasenboy@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    The ammount of vitriol displayed in some comments here is a bit sad… Over 1000 people died! Assholes!

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    Lol, who cares! That’s just hte poors. Anybody worth their salt will be able to afford portable ACs. So what if by 2050 we’ll have heat waves of 60C? That just means all the poors will die. It’s divine erasure through oil sales. Money is divine.

    /s

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    5 months ago

    I guess can’t stop that money flowing…

    At what point is this circus going to be shut down?