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Only three pilgrims of Mena stampede remain under treatment
Saudi Arabia, Religion, 4/16/1998
Saudi Health Minister Osama Bin Abdul Rahman Shabakshi on Wednesday said that only three pilgrims out of 180 wounded in the stampede in Mena during Haj procession are still under treatment in hospitals.
In a statement he made on Wednesday to the Saudi Press Agency, only three cases are still in hospitals. But he declined to identify the nationalities of the three wounded people, al-Nahar said.
Some 118 pilgrims were killed in the stampede including 24 Indians, 9 Turks, 9 Pakistanis, and seven Algerians according to the Saudi official statement.
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