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'Haj won't be affected by Makkah crane collapse'
Riyadh, Sep 13
Saudi authorities said late
Saturday that Islam's annual haj pilgrimage won't be affected by
Friday's crane collapse that killed 107 and injured 238 pilgrims at
Makkah's Grand Mosque, the media reported.
Prince Khalid Al
Faisal, the Makkah governor and head of the central haj committee, has
ordered renovations of all damages that were caused by the deadly
incident, local news channel Al Arabiya reported.
The crane
collapsed when working on the expansion operations at the mosque, which
aims to accommodate the ever-increasing number of pilgrims from all over
the world, Xinhua news agency reported.
An investigative
committee has "immediately and urgently" begun searching for the cause
of the collapse, the official Saudi Press Agency said.
It said more than 909,000 pilgrims had arrived in Mecca for this year's hajj, expected to start on September 21.