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Iran releases list of 465 nationals killed in Mecca stampede

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Saudi emergency personnel and Hajj pilgrims stand near bodies covered in sheets where at least 450 were killed and hundreds wounded in a stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015 (AFP Photo/)
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1st October, 2015

Saudi emergency personnel and Hajj pilgrims stand near bodies covered in sheets where at least 450 were killed and hundreds wounded in a stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015 (AFP Photo/)
Saudi emergency personnel and Hajj pilgrims stand near bodies covered in sheets where at least 450 were killed and hundreds wounded in a stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015 (AFP Photo/)
The number of Iranian pilgrims killed in the latest Hajj stampede in Hajj stampede had risen to 465, the Iranian authority announced on Thursday.

According to state IRIB Television, full list of the victims had been released.

Tehran said about 64,000 Iranians travelled to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj rituals this year.

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It urged immediate transfer of the dead bodies to Iran, blaming Saudi Arabia’s “inefficiency and mismanagement” in handling the largest
gathering of Muslims.

The Saudi authorities had earlier put the total number of pilgrims killed in the accident at 769.

The Saudi Interior Ministry said the stampede appeared to have been caused by two waves of pilgrims meeting at an intersection
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