DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 12 - A stampede at the annual pilgrimage in Mecca killed 345 people today, the Interior Ministry said, the deadliest such event since 1990. The Saudi Red Crescent Society said that as many as 1,000 had been injured.

This has happened before:

In the worst stampede, which took place in 1990, 1,400 were killed at the site; in 2004, 245 people were crushed to death in a similar incident.

Kind of makes one wonder, why with all the money the Saudis make on the Haj, they don't do more to protect these people?

THIS is a great idea.

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