Some 52 Bangladeshi pilgrims, who went to Saudi Arabia for performing the Hajj this year, have so far died there due to different reasons.
Of them, 43 were men and nine women, according to a bulletin posted at Bangladesh Hajj Management portal under the Religious Affairs Ministry on Monday, reports UNB.
Forty-three Bangladeshi pilgrims died in Makkah while six in Medina, two in Jeddah and one in Mina, according to the bulletin.
This year, a total of 127,198 pilgrims – 7,198 under government management and 120,000 under private management – were supposed to perform Hajj from Bangladesh.