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Helicopters patrol the pilgrimage to Mecca

Mina, Saudi Arabia - To avoid yesterday's massacre

Hundreds of policemen, dozens of ambulances everywhere and numerous helicopters have patrolled today the flood of people going to Mount Arafat to lapidate seven times the three stones, as wanted by the Muslim creed. But today the Police Forces have been more careful to avoid that other 251 people suffocate, as it happened yesterday during the pilgrimage to some Islamic holy places.

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 57690
Rome, Italy, 02/02/2004 18:21
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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