Iranian Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization issued a statement accounting the total number of Iranian pilgrims killed and injured in the tragic incident of Mina.
In the statement, Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization offers condolences to all Iranians for the loss of 464 pilgrims, while 20 are still hospitalized.
According to Iranian officials all Saudi hospitals have been looked up for any Iranian injured but after 7 days they have quit searching for the missed pilgrims.
Seyed Ali Mar’ashi, the head of Medical Center of Iran’s Red Crescent in Mecca told the reporters that Saudis have banned Iranian identifying teams to enter Moaysem Mortuary in Mecca since Tuesday.
Mar’ashi added that currently 14 Iranian pilgrims are hospitalized in Saudi Arabia and 6 other bed-bound pilgrims were transferred to Iran on Wednesday.
Other victims of the incident are from Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan, India, the Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Indonesia, Senegal, Kenya, Burundi, Cameroon, Morocco, Algeria, Chad, Niger, and Benin.
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