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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,893473,00.html
14 Trampled to Death at Hajj
(Guardian-UK) 14 Muslim pilgrims were trampled to death Tuesday in Saudi Arabia while performing a stone-throwing ritual during the Hajj. The site in Mina has been the source of dangerous bottlenecks in the past. In 2001, 35 people died in a stampede during the stoning ritual. In 1998, 180 died performing the same ritual.