A crawler crane collapsed over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, around 5:10 p.m. on 11 September 2015, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others. The city was preparing for the Hajj pilgrimage. The accident has been cited as the deadliest crane collapse in history, with the previous most deadly incident being the collapse of a construction crane in New York City in 2008, killing seven people.
Following the accidents, the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud, ordered a halt to the awarding of contracts to the Saudi Binladin Group, the primary contractor of construction works in the holy city. The incident was found to have resulted from a combination of human error and forceful winds.
DW News cited that in August 2016, Saudi Gazette reported the trial of 14 individuals, with Okaz adding that prosecutors did not file charges against 42 others who were under investigation, including 16 members of the Bin Laden family. Victims of the accident were of twelve different nationalities, with the greatest contingents of deaths being 25 Bangladeshis and 23 Egyptians. Of the injured, the most represented nationalities were 51 Pakistanis and 42 Indonesians.
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The only thing I can think of that would be positive about this (if the info I know is right) that death in Mecca is an instant trip to Paradise. I'm not sure if it has to be during Hajj or not (still sad that so many people died though)
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That's 7992 virgins in Paradise.
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It's usually by the intent of the person, for example if someone is a good person and is on the way to mosque to read namaz (pray) and say has a heart attack on the way, they will be granted jannah (heaven) so the intent of these people was to perform Hajj (pilgrimage) so I'd say it applies here too
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you have to kiss the blackstone first
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Snapshots:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca_crane_collapse:
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Lmfao….. stone kissers
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Possible connection with 9/11? As this happen on September the eleventh?
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Also these cranes were belonging to the Saudi binladin construction group and 16 member of the bin laden (yes the family including osama bin laden) were under investigation, also there was a plane crash and several members of the bin laden family died in it!
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I’m wondering the same. Seems oddly coincidental.
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