At least 310 people were killed and more than to 400 other injured in a stampede of pilgrims Thursday during the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia, the civil defence service said.
Rescue operations were under way, the service said on Twitter, after the stampede in Mina near Mecca, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims were taking part in the last major rite of the hajj.
This event happened where pilgrims walk way leading to the pillars where pilgrims throw stone (center tents) on the 2nd day of Jamarat ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina near the holy city of Mecca which people locked in stampede.