MINA, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia deployed large numbers of special forces Saturday as pilgrims performed the final rituals of a hajj marred by double tragedies that have killed more than 800 people.
Dozens of “special emergency force” personnel were seen on one level of the Jamarat Bridge, a five-storey structure in Mina where pilgrims ritually stone the devil, and on which hundreds of thousands were converging when a deadly stampede occurred nearby on Thursday.
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