(, Run May the tenth, Gengwu), July 2, 1990, Mecca, Eid al-Adha tragedy. the


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in July 1990, is the first day of Eid al-Adha, about two million Muslims from around the world the Mecca for the annual Hajj ceremony. When the crowd walking through the road tunnel between Mina and Mecca and its above pavement due to overcrowding, 7 people fall, fell to his death in a tunnel at the exit from the road, then to chaos. The tunnel was about 5 million people, with temperatures up to 43 degrees Celsius. Confusion many elderly and infirm were trampled to death, and some men, and died of suffocation. According to statistics, a total of 1426 people died.