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Saudi Arabia maintains official toll of 769, but foreign updates have seen deaths climb to 1,608.
The death toll from last month’s stampede at the hajj has risen to at least 1,608, according to tallies given by foreign officials, making it the deadliest incident in the pilgrimage’s history.
Saudi Arabia has yet to provide an updated death toll after saying two days after the stampede that 769 Muslim pilgrims had died. Saudi authorities have also not provided a breakdown by nationality.
Hundreds of pilgrims have also not been accounted for following the Sept. 24 stampede at the hajj, one of the largest annual gatherings in the world. But many foreign governments have provided numbers on pilgrims killed from their countries and an AFP tally shows the death toll has overtaken the 1,426 pilgrims who died in the hajj’s worst previous incident—a tunnel stampede in July 1990.
Here is a breakdown of the dead from foreign governments:
Iran: 464 dead
Egypt: 177 dead
Nigeria: 145 dead
Indonesia: 120 dead
India: 101 dead
Pakistan: 87 dead
Bangladesh: 79
Mali: 60 dead
Senegal: 54 dead
Chad: 52 dead
Benin: 34 dead
Morocco: 33 dead
Sudan: 30 dead
Algeria: 28 dead
Niger: 28 dead
Burkina Faso: 22 dead
Cameroon: 20 dead
Ivory Coast: 14 dead
Ethiopia: 13 dead
Libya: 10 dead
Somalia: 8 dead
Kenya: 6 dead
Ghana: 5 dead
Mauritius: 5 dead
Tanzania: 4 dead
Tunisia: 4 dead
Burundi: 1 dead
Iraq: 1 dead
Jordan: 1 dead
Netherlands: 1 dead
Oman: 1 dead