The truth about the video “Bodies of Pilgrims in Mina”

A video appeared on social media accounts and pages that was said to show people who died in the Hajj, while claiming that it was from this year's Hajj season.

In the video, what appear to be bodies on the ground and surrounded by a number of people, a voice is heard saying "the dead by the hundreds in Mina as a result of the stampede" from Morocco, Egypt and other countries.

The clip was accompanied by something that explicitly indicates or hinted that it was filmed during the current Hajj season, which concluded a few days ago, and was the largest since the emergence of the Corona pandemic.

This year, there was no information about accidents, according to AFP journalists who covered this year's pilgrimage, noting that previous years had already witnessed fatal stampede incidents.

The inspection of the video led to clips that are similar in their elements, but these clips were published in 2015, which refutes the fact that these scenes are recent.

During the Hajj season of 2015, a stampede near Mina on the first day of Eid al-Adha killed more than 700 people and injured more than 800 others in the worst accident in nearly three decades.

An official in the Saudi Ministry of Health told AFP at the time that the stampede occurred at the time of the stoning of the Jamarat, when a crowd of pilgrims tried to leave the site while a large number were trying to reach it.

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