Egypt says it will prosecute and strip licences from travel agencies that it alleges illegally arranged Hajj trips for unregistrered pilgrims. More than 1,300 people have died during this year's pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia where temperatures have risen above 50 degrees Celsius. Umer Karim is an associate fellow at the King Faisal Centre for Islamic Studies and tells The World’s Yvonne Yong the “staggering” incident is the first time mass deaths have occurred “specifically because of the heat”.
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