Deadly Haj-related incidents

• Deadly Haj-related incidents during the past three decades

• 1990: The worst Haj-related tragedy claims the lives of 1,426 pilgrims in a stampede in an overcrowded pedestrian tunnel leading to holy sites in Makkah.
• 1994: Some 270 pilgrims are killed in a stampede during the stoning ritual at Mina.
• 1997: At least 340 pilgrims are killed in a fire at the tent city of Mina as the blaze was aided by high winds. More than 1,500 were injured.
• 1998: About 180 pilgrims are trampled to death in panic after several of them fell off an overpass during the final stoning ritual at Mina.
• 2001: A stampede at Mina during the final day of the pilgrimage ceremonies kills 35 Haj pilgrims.
• 2004: A crush of pilgrims at Mina kills 244 pilgrims and injures hundreds on the final day of the Haj ceremonies.
• 2006: More than 360 pilgrims are killed in a stampede at the desert plain of Mina, near Makkah, where pilgrims carry out a symbolic stoning of the devil by throwing pebbles against three stone walls. The day before the Haj began, an eight-story building being used as a hostel near the Grand Mosque in Makkah collapsed, killing at least 73 people.
• 2015: At least 111 people killed and nearly 400 wounded during a crane accident at Makkah's Grand Mosque Islam's holiest site
• 2015: At latest update 717 people dead and 805 injured.