According to samaa.tv, the Hajj pilgrims who embraced martyrdom in construction crane crash incident at Grand Masjid of Makkah are considered as privileged.
The Guardian is bringing this live blog to a close tonight, as it is after midnight in Mecca.
Here’s how things stand at the moment:
- A construction crane has crashed through the eastern side of Mecca’s Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia, the holy building at the centre of the annual hajj pilgrimage
- 87 people are dead and 201 people are injured according to the Saudi civil defence authority’s Twitter posts.
#Hajj pilgrims who embraced martyrdom in crane crash are privileged. #PrayForMakkah
Watch: http://t.co/KS6Bt2Ahvm pic.twitter.com/fPYLbgSm9A
— SAMAA TV (@SAMAATV) September 12, 2015
My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost the loved one and those who are injured #PrayForMakkah pic.twitter.com/T0dMDOzp8m
— Naszeem Senrose (@NaszeeemNassir) September 12, 2015
#ShareTheValue
Died on friday
They died in ka'ba
They died while whorshipping Allah
Jannah insyaAllah
#PrayForMakkah pic.twitter.com/8tEMutprqt
— #ShareTheValue (@ShareTheValue) September 12, 2015
this is so heartbreaking #PrayForMakkah @hassanaman9 @AlJazeera @AlRiyadh @AlArabiya_Eng @BBCArabic @geonews_urdu pic.twitter.com/yjR8PQM1hP
— #PrayForMakkah (@hassanaman9) September 12, 2015