Foreign toll in Saudi hajj stampede

Foreign toll in Saudi hajj stampede
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Summary Several countries have announced the deaths of nationals

MINA (AFP) - Saudi authorities have yet to provide a breakdown of the nationalities of the 769 Muslim pilgrims killed in Thursday s hajj stampede, but several countries have announced the deaths of nationals.

Here is the toll given by foreign officials and media so far:

 

- Iran: 136 dead

- Morocco: 87 dead, according to Moroccan media

- Cameroon: at least 20 dead

- Niger: at least 19 dead

- Egypt: 14 dead

- India: 14 dead

- Ivory Coast: 14 dead, 77 missing

- Chad: 11 dead

- Pakistan: 9 dead

- Somalia: 8 dead, according to media reports

- Algeria: 7 dead

- Senegal: 5 dead

- Tanzania: 4 dead

- Indonesia: 3 dead

- Kenya: 3 dead

- Nigeria: 3 dead

- Burkina Faso: 1 dead

- Burundi: 1 dead (Muslim association)

- Netherlands: 1 dead

- Benin: deaths confirmed but number unspecified
 

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