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The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it has deployed consular teams in Mecca and the holy sites to find missing Egyptians, amid reports that hundreds have died due to intense heat during the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage. Consular teams are currently visiting hospitals to find Egyptian citizens receiving treatment or bodies of those who have passed away and match them with lists of people reported missing by their relatives, the ministry said in a statement. Unconfirmed reports said that hundreds of Egyptians died during the Hajj. The privately-owned Masrawy website published a report under…