1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy

When

2 Jul 1990

Kind

Crowd crush

Coordinates

21.41° N, 39.89° E

Description

Crowd crush incident

Deaths

1426

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Crowd crush incident

On 2 July 1990, 1,426 people were suffocated and trampled to death in a crowd crush or stampede event in a tunnel near Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy: A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca kills 1,426”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1990 Hac izdihamı: Mina'da şeytan taşlamaya giden ve dönenlerin gidiş-geliş ayrımı yapılmayan tünel içerisinde karşılaşmalarıyla meydana gelen izdihamda 447'si…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Мекке в давке в подземном переходе погибло 1426 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “沙烏地阿拉伯發生麦加朝觐踩踏事故，造成1426人死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page