Security boosted as death-marred hajj ends

An aerial view of the walk way leading to the pillars where pilgrims throw stone (centre tents) on the second day of "Jamarat" ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina near Saudi Arabia's holy Muslim city of Mecca on September 25, 2015. -AFP

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.