Hajj: NAHCON transports 18401 pilgrims to Nigeria

Addressing journalists in Dar es Salaam at Bakwata headquarters, the Chief Sheikh Mufti Abubakari Zuberi Ali called upon all returning pilgrims to forward challenges and inefficiencies they experienced in Saudi Arabia to the council.

Exactly two weeks earlier, 109 people were killed and hundreds injured when a crane collapsed within the premises of the Grand Mosque in Mecca after a stormy rain on September 11, 2015.

Saudi officials say 769 people were killed in the disaster in Mina, the site of the final major ritual in the Hajj pilgrimage.

He stated that 40 injured have been discharged from hospitals and 7 have been nonetheless beneath remedy. NAHCON further states that although it can not account for the missing Nigerian pilgrims, it can not declare them dead.

Press TV has interviewed Kevin Barrett, editor of the Veterans Today from Madison, and Mohammed Shafiq, with the Ramadan Foundation from Manchester, to discuss the Saudis’ inaction to shed light on the Mina stampede of this year’s Hajj pilgrimage. Nonetheless, it was not good enough that it took authorities a long while to disseminate information about the identities of victims. According to him, many pilgrims move without respecting the time table prepared for observing the Hajj rites.

The legislators noted that pictures and videos circulating on social media showed ill treatment of the bodies of martyred pilgrims by the Saudi government.

Eyewitness reports from Mina suggest that the catastrophe wasn’t an incident but a controlled crime.

They told reporters in Dar es Salaam at the week end that Tanzanian government ought to join the team made of countries with high toll of the fallen to probe into the mystery behind the worst Hajj horror in the past 25 years in what appeared to be putting the blames on Saudi authorities.