Five Nigerian pilgrims to this year’s hajj inwards Makkah, Saudi Arabia, stimulate got died.
The Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Abdullahi Mohammed, announced the passage of iv the pilgrims inwards Tuesday inwards Makkah, Islam’s holiest city.
Mr. Mohammed, who spoke at the 2017 pre-Arafat coming together alongside Hajj stakeholders, soundless declined to disclosed the identities of the belatedly pilgrims also equally the circumstances that led to their death.
He said such information could solely hold upwards disclosed afterward their families had been appropriately informed.
The Nahcon chair pleaded alongside the media to withhold the details thus equally non to farther devastate the families of the affected pilgrims.
Shortly afterward the chairman spoke, an official on the medical squad of Nahcon announced the passage of about other pilgrim from Kwara.
A full 81,200 Nigerian pilgrims are performing this year’s hajj, all of whom stimulate got converged on Makkah afterward about of them visited in addition to prayed at the Prophet Mohammed’s mosque inwards Madinah.
A few other pilgrims came straight to Makkah afterward flight into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the nearby metropolis of Jeddah.
All the pilgrims stimulate got performed the rites of Umrah, the lesser hajj, at al-Masjid al-Haram inwards which is situated the Kabah.
On Wednesday, the pilgrims, similar their counterparts from other parts of the world, volition deed to the metropolis of Mina to pass the evening of the ninth of Dhul-Hijah.
The pilgrims volition thus continue to Arafat on Th praising Allah in addition to reciting the Qur’an.
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