Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))
09-11-2015, 08:41 PM
A crane - not a plane..
Alan Akbar works in mysterious ways...
:rubchin:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar abia/11859598/At-least-65-killed-as-crane-crashes-into-Mecca s-Grand-Mosque.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11859598/At-least-65-killed-as-crane-crashes-into-Meccas-Grand-Mosque.html)
At least 87 pilgrims were killed on Friday night and 184 injured when a construction crane crashed through the roof of the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.
The crane appeared to have snapped and smashed through the ceiling on the eastern side of the largest mosque in the world following high winds and heavy rain.
The Masjid al-Haram, or Grand Mosque, was particularly busy at the time, as Muslims from around the world converge on the site ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage at the end of the month.
Pictures and videos posted on social media showed scores of dead bodies on the mosque's marble floor and courtyard, with dazed and bloodied pilgrims being treated among the rubble.
Unverifiable mobile phone footage appeared to show the moment the crane fell, with a loud crash followed by panic and shouting.
Online activists created a hashtag on Twitter urging Mecca residents to donate blood at hospitals in the area.
No details were immediately available on the nationalities of the victims. Iran's official IRNA news agency, quoting the head of the Hajj Organisation, said that 15 Iranian pilgrims were among those injured.
The cause of the crane collapse was not confirmed, and official information was not forthcoming from the secretive kingdom.
The Saudi civil defence authority said on Twitter that emergency teams were sent to the scene after a "crane fell at the Grand Mosque."
Alan Akbar works in mysterious ways...
:rubchin:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar abia/11859598/At-least-65-killed-as-crane-crashes-into-Mecca s-Grand-Mosque.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11859598/At-least-65-killed-as-crane-crashes-into-Meccas-Grand-Mosque.html)
At least 87 pilgrims were killed on Friday night and 184 injured when a construction crane crashed through the roof of the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.
The crane appeared to have snapped and smashed through the ceiling on the eastern side of the largest mosque in the world following high winds and heavy rain.
The Masjid al-Haram, or Grand Mosque, was particularly busy at the time, as Muslims from around the world converge on the site ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage at the end of the month.
Pictures and videos posted on social media showed scores of dead bodies on the mosque's marble floor and courtyard, with dazed and bloodied pilgrims being treated among the rubble.
Unverifiable mobile phone footage appeared to show the moment the crane fell, with a loud crash followed by panic and shouting.
Online activists created a hashtag on Twitter urging Mecca residents to donate blood at hospitals in the area.
No details were immediately available on the nationalities of the victims. Iran's official IRNA news agency, quoting the head of the Hajj Organisation, said that 15 Iranian pilgrims were among those injured.
The cause of the crane collapse was not confirmed, and official information was not forthcoming from the secretive kingdom.
The Saudi civil defence authority said on Twitter that emergency teams were sent to the scene after a "crane fell at the Grand Mosque."