The number of people killed in the stampede in Mecca has been revised sharply upwards to 717. Over 800 people have been injured.
The tragedy took place when tens of thousands of people panicked for an as-yet-unknown reason and surged forwards in Mina, on the outskirts of the holy shrine.
In the tightly-packed and closed-off pedestrian walkways leading into Mecca in the interests of crowd control one-way systems operate, leaving people with nowhere to go but forwards.
Thursday is a day when ma…
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