Indian toll at Mina stampede 40

    Jeddah: The Indian Consulate in Jeddah has confirmed the death of 40 Indian Pilgrims in the Mina stampede on the last day of the Haj. The deceased include 22 women. The casualties also include two Indians resident in Saudi Arabia. According to Saudi official s sources, a total of 354 people have died and 289 injured in the incident. As of now 40 Indian pilgrims have been confirmed dead of which 22 are women. Indian Consul General in Saudi Arabia Ausaf Sayeed added that the identification process was on.

    Meanwhile Indian government has declared grant of Rs 3 lakh to the next of kin of the victims. Fifteen Indian devotees were also injured in the tragedy and of them eight have been discharged from various hospitals, Indian Consul General Ausaf Sayeed said over phone from Mina. Sayeed said the death toll is likely to go up as efforts were on to trace the missing Indian pilgrims in the mortuary and there could be more casualties who were not pilgrims but working at various Saudi agencies.

   The list of deceased people included -- Sabiran Bano (UP), Raushan Jahan (UP), Zaibunnisa (Maharashtra), Fauzia(UP), Khatoom Begum (Rajasthan), Seerat Fatima (UP), Sarfaraz Ahmed (UP), Mohd Bahuddin (Andhra Pradesh), Ruksana Begum ((UP), Abeda Shakeel (UP), Akhtarnul Nisha (UP), Mohammad Shareef(UP), Moideen Kutty (Kerala), Immerumma (Kerala), Nisar Ahmed (UP), Rahisa Bano (Rajasthan), Kachem Ali Sekh (West Bengal), Mohd Idris (UP), Jamshed Ali (UP), Haneefunnisa Begum (Andhra Pradesh), Salma Begum Pathan (Maharashtra), Mohd Abdul Shukur (Andhra Pradesh), Nasim Bano (Maharashtra), Raseedan Bee (Madhya Pradesh), Kamrunnisa (Madhya Pradesh), Ibrahim Falidad Bihai ( Local Iqama Holder), Sulaiman (Local Iqama Holder) and Aboobacker (Kerala), Zaheera Bee (Andhra Pradesh), Alam Siddiqui (Uttar Pradesh), Shaheda Begum (Uttar Pradesh), Sheerin Bano (Gujarat), Malek Aslam Miya (Gujarat), Mohd Salim Ahmed, Ruksana Banu (Gujarat), Mohammed Shabeer (UP), Azim Khan, (Madhya Pradesh), Zainab Khatoon (UP), Mehraj Begum (Andhra Pradesh), Chowdhary Meraj Ashraf (UP)

    Consul General, Consul (Haj) and senior officials of the Indian medical Mission visited the injured pilgrims admitted at the various hospitals in Mina to enquire about their well-being. The list of injured included -- Mohd Ibnul Hasan (Bihar), Maqsood (Uttar Pradesh), Mannawar Hussain (Uttar Pradesh), Hamza Perchikotel (Kerala), Serajuddin (Delhi), Husna Bano (Delhi), Shahjahan Bano (Uttar Pradesh), Tabish Kashmiri (Jammu and Kashmir), Kazi Yasin (Maharashtra), Begum Jan (Andhra Pradesh), Shakira (Uttar Pradesh), Massiyanam Bi (Maharashtra), Mohammed Shafiq (West Bengal), Shawkat Ali (UP), Sarvatullah Khan (Madhya Pradesh).

   A Control Room has been set-up in the Mina Camp. The contact numbers of the Control Room are 009662-5523816, 5592528, 5523815. Ten (10) Branch dispensaries and the Main Hospital in Makkah have been put on high alert and are functioning round the clock. The stampede took place at around 2 pm (IST) in Mina on the last day of the Haj on January 12. The incident took place when the pilgrims were going for the ritual stoning of Shaitan (Rammi), at about 150 meters of distance from the Jamarat Bridge, on which stoning of Shaitan is done.

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