Saudi
authorities deployed drones to watch over nearly 2 million pilgrims as
they descended Mount Arafat on the final stages of the Haj.
On
foot or seated on the roofs of buses, the faithful climbed down the
craggy hills outside Mecca at sunset and set out en masse for the open
plateau of Muzdalifah.
The
surveillance was part of stepped-up efforts to avoid a repeat of last
year's crush, which killed nearly 800 pilgrims, according to the
official count.
Pilgrims gathered to perform the midday prayer at the Nimra Mosque,
believed to where the Prophet Mohammed stopped to pray the day he made
his last sermon
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