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UK pilgrim blames Saudi mismanagement for Mina stampede

Saudi emergency personnel and Hajj pilgrims stand near bodies covered in sheets at the site where at least 450 were killed and hundreds wounded in a stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015. (AFP)

Roshan Muhammed Salih

Press TV, London

A British hajj pilgrim has blamed Saudi mismanagement for the recent Mina disaster. Sayyed Mohammed al-Musawi was an eyewitness to the stampede and says it was caused after security forces blocked the roads to facilitate the passage of a royal convoy. Press TV correspondent Roshan Muhammed Salih has talked to him and filed this report.


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