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NAIROBI: Joyous families celebrated yesterday as their relatives returned home from the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca city where several Kenyan pilgrims died in a stampede that claimed hundreds of lives.
At least eight Kenyans, including the wife of a former MP from Mombasa, remain missing after the accident in which six of their compatriots were confirmed to have died. The pilgrims died in Mina, a town neighbouring Mecca, where they were performing a ritual called “Stoning the Devil”.
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