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Breaking News: Many Souls Lost in Holy City Of Mecca.......

The directorate said 450 other pilgrims were injured in 
Thursday’s stampede, which took place in Mina, on the outskirts of the 
holy city of Mecca.At least 310 people have been killed in a stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia’s civil defence directorate said.Mina is where pilgrims carry out a symbolic stoning of the devil by 
throwing pebbles against three stone walls. It also houses more than 
160,000 tents where pilgrims spend the night during the pilgrimage.“The
 street where it happened is named Street 204. This stampede did not 
happen at the site of the ‘stoning of the devil’ ritual, which was 
happening today.”Al Jazeera’s Basma Atassi, reporting from Mina, said the incident took place in a street between pilgrim camps.