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(PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD) MECCA: An elderly Kenyan man is among the 107 pilgrims killed after a crane crashed into the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Friday. Aden Hassan Alio in his ...
Saudi Arabia has never acknowledged the full toll of the stampede. A separate crane collapse at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, which preceded the Mina disaster that same year, killed 111 people.