At least two people have been killed and dozens injured in a stampede at a stadium in Basra, southern Iraq, ahead of the Arabian Gulf Cup final. The Iraqi interior ministry told Al Jazeera that two people had died and about 80 have been in injured in the stampede on[…]
For more than three decades, Iwan Junaedi was a devoted fan of the Indonesian soccer side Arema FC, barely missing a game at the club in the country’s top-flight league. But Saturday’s match would be the last time the 43-year-old father of three would see his side play, as he[…]
At least 129 people were killed and around 180 injured at a soccer match in Indonesia after panicked fans were trampled and crushed trying to flee during a riot, police said on Sunday, in what appeared to be one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. When supporters of the losing[…]
Eighteen pilgrims who were injured in a stampede near the Grand Mosque on Friday night were treated at the scene and none required admission to hospital. The incident happened on Friday night as the faithful gathered in large numbers to mark the Night of Power, one of the high points[…]
AP said on Monday that at least 2,110 people died in the tragedy at the annual Hajj pilgrimage – far more than the official Saudi death toll of 769. The new figure comes from media reports and statements from 30 countries who lost citizens, AP said. The crush was the[…]
A fresh tally of casualties killed in a stampede near Mecca last month has raised the death toll to 1,453, making this year’s incident the deadliest recorded during the hajj. The figure, compiled by the Associated Press, was gathered from officials and statements by 19 countries whose citizens were declared[…]
The number of pilgrims killed in the Saudi hajj disaster near the holy city of Mecca rose on Monday to over 1,100 dead, according to an Associated Press count. Saudi officials have said their official figure of 769 killed and 934 injured in Mina remains accurate, though an investigation into[…]
Saudi Arabia firmly rejected Iran’s criticism of its handling of the Haj pilgrimage Saturday after Tehran demanded an inquiry into the Mina stampede. “I believe the Iranians should know better than to play politics with a tragedy that has befallen people who were performing their most sacred religious duty,” Foreign[…]
Iran demanded an apology from Saudi Arabia on Sunday over the deaths of 769 people at the haj pilgrimage and accused it of trying to evade blame, while Riyadh in turn accused Tehran of playing politics with the disaster. At least 155 Iranian pilgrims died in the crush of pilgrims[…]
Saudi Arabia’s top religious leader has said that the Hajj stampede which killed 717 pilgrims was beyond human control, official media reported on the final day of this year’s pilgrimage. The stampede was the worst disaster in a quarter-century to strike the annual event and drew fierce criticism of the[…]
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