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RIYADH — Friends and family searched for missing hajj pilgrims on Wednesday as the death toll at the annual rituals, which were carried out in scorching heat, surged past 900.Relatives scoured hospitals and pleaded online for news, fearing the worst after temperatures hit 51.8 degrees Celsius in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, on Monday.About 1.
For the past several years the mainly outdoor rituals have fallen during the sweltering Saudi summer.According to a Saudi study published last month, temperatures in the area are rising 0.4 degrees Celsius each decade.In addition to Egypt, fatalities have also been confirmed by Jordan, Indonesia, Iran, Senegal, Tunisia and Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, though in many cases authorities have not specified the cause.
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