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Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Saturday ordered 16 tourism companies stripped of their licences and referred their managers to the public prosecutor’s office for illegally facilitating pilgrims’ travel to Mecca, the cabinet said. The order came after various countries reported more than 1,100 deaths, many attributed to high heat, during this year’s hajj. Arab diplomats told AFP earlier this week that Egyptians accounted for 658 deaths, 630 of them unregistered pilgrims. “The prime minister has ordered the licences of these companies to be revoked, their managers to be referred to …