Saudi Arabia’s Health Minister Fahd al-Jalajel announced on June 23 that 1,301 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage, with the majority being ‘unauthorised pilgrims,’ according to the Saudi Press Agency on June 23. Reports from newspapers in several Muslim countries report that hundreds of people have been reported dead, with hundreds more missing, duringthis year’s annual pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, as temperatures soar beyond 50 degrees Celsius on most days. The minister stated that the health system provided over 465,000 specialised medical services, of which 14…