Dan Lyke on Nostr: Amid reports of hundreds dying from heat exhaustion during this year's Hajj, I went ...
Amid reports of hundreds dying from heat exhaustion during this year's Hajj, I went to find reports of some of the disasters I remembered from years previous, and was shocked to learn that there are at least two years (1757,1821) where there were circa twenty thousand deaths.
I was thinking of crowd crushes/stampedes, but there are a lot of ways to die when you get huge groups traveling together. Yikes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_during_the_HajjPublished at
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