More than 2 million Muslims gather in Mecca to worship at Islam's holiest site as Hajj pilgrimage gets underway
More than two million pilgrims have gathered in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform initial rites of the hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage that takes the faithful along a path traversed by the Prophet Muhammad 1,400 years ago.
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