Hajj tragedy: 4 Kwara pilgrims dead, 10 missing as 499 pilgrims arrive
Four Kwara state pilgrims who performed this year Hajj were confirmed dead while ten others still missing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the first batch of the pilgrims returned to Ilorin on Tuesday.
Some of the pilgrims were seen shedding tears while recalling and narrating their experiences with their relations at the Ilorin international airport?.
The Former Kwara state Head of Service, Alhaji Mohammed Daborako who was one of the first Kwara batch of 499 pilgrims that arrived confirmed this during an interview with Daily Trust.
The incident occurred in Muna when pilgrims after stoning the devil met others who were going to perform their own stoning on the same direction. This caused serious choke-up ?and resulted into stampede as a result of the large crowd," he said.
He further added that some Kwara pilgrims were also affected during the crane crash incident.
He said "I even knew somebody a kwaran staying very close to me. I couldn't see him again maybe he died or went missing. I didn't know. ?But I learnt that 3 people died from Kwara state. These 3 people I learnt 2 of them where sick and aged people before going for the Hajj.
"I don't know which local government or part of Kwara these 3 people are from because it is the State Welfare Board that can identify them. ?At the same time we learnt that 10 Kwarans were missing before we left but nobody knows whether they are alive or dead. I was lucky because I went with Amirul-Hajj very early in the morning when the stampede happened we were surprised because the security were directing us."
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