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- <text id=91TT1597>
- <title>
- July 22, 1991: World Notes:Saudi Arabia
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 22, 1991 The Colorado
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 44
- World Notes
- SAUDI ARABIA
- Pilgrims' Plight
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to the holy cities of
- Mecca and Medina, may be spiritually uplifting, but it has
- often proved physically dangerous. The grim toll:
- </p>
- <p> Last week: A chartered plane carrying 247 Muslims home to
- Nigeria crashed leaving Jidda, killing all aboard.
- </p>
- <p> 1990: At least 1,426 were trampled to death or suffocated
- in a tunnel near the holy sites.
- </p>
- <p> 1987: An attempt to quell Iranians staging a violent
- political protest against the U.S., the Soviet Union and Israel
- left 402 dead, 649 wounded in Mecca.
- </p>
- <p> 1980: A jet departing from the Saudi capital of Riyadh
- caught fire when one of the passengers lighted a butane stove
- in an aisle to brew tea, killing 301, mostly Saudi Arabians and
- Pakistanis.
- </p>
- <p> 1974: A chartered Dutch DC-8 ferrying 182 Indonesian
- pilgrims to Mecca crashed in Sri Lanka, resulting in their
- deaths.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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