Hajj 2024 News Update. Egyptian pilgrims 'totally abandoned' in hajj heat. About 10 countries have reported a total of 1,081 deaths during the hajj, the annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca, the afp news agency says.

Egyptian pilgrims ‘totally abandoned’ in hajj heat. Muslim pilgrims have wrapped up the hajj pilgrimage in the deadly summer heat with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation.