Mecca Grand Mosque News
A man tried to set himself alight with gasoline beside the Kaaba, the black-clad building towards which the world`s Muslims face to pray, inside Mecca`s Grand Mosque late on Monday but was arrested before he could do so, police in Saudi Arabia said.
Muslim pilgrims joining this year's hajj in Saudi Arabia will have to wear an electronic safety bracelet, newspapers reported today, after more than 2,000 died in a stampede last year.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Sunday confirmed that 11 Indians were among over 100 people who were killed at Mecca`s Grand Mosque after collapse of a construction crane.
Saudi authorities said on Saturday the annual Haj pilgrimage would go ahead despite a crane collapse that killed 107 people at Mecca's Grand Mosque, where crowds returned to pray a day after the disaster.
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