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This year’s Hajj saw 1,673,230 Muslims participate, the lowest turnout for the Islamic journey to Mecca over the past 30 years, excluding the period during the Covid-19 pandemic. The worshippers seen above who gathered to pray around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, on Thursday, had to contend with temperatures that rose above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
After 1,300 pilgrims died last year, Saudi authorities said that for this year, they expanded the rubberized and cooled roads that can reduce surface temperatures by several degrees and would use drones to monitor those taking part. Last year, temperatures climbed as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, as climate change has made the pilgrimage more dangerous.—DL
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