{"id":30936,"date":"2024-06-21T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T13:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/during-hajj-this-year-98-indians-died-due-to-natural-causes-chronic-illnesses-mea-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T13:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T13:26:01","slug":"during-hajj-this-year-98-indians-died-due-to-natural-causes-chronic-illnesses-mea-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/during-hajj-this-year-98-indians-died-due-to-natural-causes-chronic-illnesses-mea-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"During Hajj This Year 98 Indians Died Due to Natural Causes, Chronic Illnesses: MEA &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) o<span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">n Friday,<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">reported that approximately 175,000 Indians went to the Hajj pilgrimage, with 98 pilgrims having passed away due to natural causes and chronic illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, during a press briefing, stated, \u201cA large number of Indian pilgrims participate in Hajj annually, and unfortunately some lose their lives during the Hajj period. To date, 175,000 Indians have visited Hajj this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lost 98 citizens thus far. The causes of death have been due to natural causes, chronic illnesses and old age. On the day of Arafat, six Indian pilgrims died, and four others due to accidents,\u201d added Jaiswal.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned, \u201cLast year, the number of Indian fatalities during Hajj was 187.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This statement was issued following reports that over 1,000 pilgrims from 10 different countries died during the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi National Center for Meteorology has recorded temperatures reaching 47\u00b0C at peak times in Mecca and its surrounding sacred sites. There have also been instances of individuals fainting during the ritual stoning of the devil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday,\u00a0reported that approximately 175,000 Indians went to the Hajj pilgrimage, with 98 pilgrims having passed away due to natural causes and chronic illness. MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, during a press briefing, stated, \u201cA large number of Indian pilgrims participate in Hajj annually, and unfortunately some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Hajj-Piligrimage.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30938,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30936\/revisions\/30938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}