Mecca fire of 1997

When

15 Apr 1997

Kind

Fire

Coordinates

21.41° N, 39.89° E

Description

fire incident in Mecca,Saudi Arabia (1997)

Injured

1300

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Fire incident in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (1997)

The Mecca fire of 1997 was a fire that occurred in the tent city Mina near Mecca in Saudi Arabia on April 15th 1997, killing between 217 and 300 pilgrims and injuring 1,300. According to witnesses, most of the dead were pilgrim from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

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• Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, 11 km from Mecca; 343 die”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “حادثة حريق هائل في مخيمات الحجاج على سهل مينا، على بعد (11 كم) من مكة المكرمة، حيث أودى الحريق لوفاة 343 حاجاً وحاجّة، وجرح أكثر من 1,500 آخرين”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page