London: Association of British Hujjaj (Pilgrims) UK, a national Hajj specific organisation working for the welfare and wellbeing of Hajj/ Umrah pilgrims has urged Saudi authorities to make the Mina inquiry findings public to prevent recurrence of such tragedies in future.
ABH has welcomed the recommendation made by Shura Council of Saudi Arabia to expand the roads leading to the site of Jamarat in Mina where more than 2000 pilgrims died in a stampede during Hajj pilgrimage in September last year.
“It was highly regrettable that innocent pilgrims lost their precious lives in such terrible circumstances. Horrific scenes of the stampede aftermath and pictures and reports coming through caused immense grief and distress throughout the world”, ABH said in a statement.
The tragedy occurred despite of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia spending millions of dollars on improving infrastructure to facilitate Hajj arrangements, it said.
According to the Saudi government one of the major contributory factors of this heart breaking human disaster was ignorance and lack of awareness of health and safety precautions amongst pilgrims.
“Soon after this tragedy in September 2015, King Salman ordered an enquiry of this incident but the findings of this enquiry are yet to come out. It is high time to make the findings of this enquiry public so that the factors that led to this stampede could be known and a lesson could be learned”, ABH said adding, “As the next Hajj pilgrimage is in the first week of September 2016 (less than 8 months away), a safe strategy needs to be devised to prevent any further lethal stampedes and to ensure the safety of future pilgrims.”
ABH also urged all the relevant governments from around the world that all efforts must be made to ensure that the prospective pilgrims are well trained and aware of vital life saving health and safety precautions in order to perform a safe Hajj and to prevent any future loss of innocent human lives.
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