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Murderous heat claimed the lives of at least 1,100 Muslim faithful participating in this year’s annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia — a toll that could end up being several hundred more. The death tally reported by 10 countries is the highest in nine years at the event that draws as many as 2 million people to the Saudi desert. More than half of the victims this year were from Egypt, Agence France Presse reported. An already brutal desert enviroment for the pilgrimage is growing increasingly deadly with climate change. Mecca’s average maximum temperature in June is nearly 111 degre…

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