{"id":1633,"date":"2015-09-28T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1633-mina-disaster-eyewitness-saudis-did-nothing-to-save-us-for-couple-of-hours\/"},"modified":"2015-09-28T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T16:18:38","slug":"mina-disaster-eyewitness-saudis-did-nothing-to-save-us-for-couple-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1633-mina-disaster-eyewitness-saudis-did-nothing-to-save-us-for-couple-of-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Mina disaster eyewitness: Saudis did nothing to save us for couple of hours!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">An eyewitness and one of the survivors of the accident by the name of Haj Hamid Shaker Nijad explains<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the worst hajj disaster in a quarter century, two huge waves of pilgrims converged Thursday on a street near a religious site in Mina, and around 2,000 people were crushed, while so many other were injured.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness and one of the survivors of the accident by the name of Haj Hamid Shaker Nijad explains his story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn our way to Mina to perform the ritual of the Stoning of the Devil, we stopped because it was getting very crowded and we couldn\u2019t move. All people were standing shoulder to shoulder; therefore we were not able to move forward or backward. There was no water to drink, no oxygen to breathe and the weather was extremely hot.Gradually, a wave of fear began to rise in all people; we were feeling the fear of death. At first, we were thinking that the way should be open soon, but there were high pressures on our chests and we have no oxygen to breath. The fear of death had caused some pilgrims to show certain reactions like shouting and pushing trying to escape, but there was no way out. We were so near death that we made ourselves ready to die. The strong were able to control themselves but the vulnerable gave up. At that time, some pilgrims decided to save their lives, so they started pushing and climbing on top of other people andthis lead to many pilgrims gettingstepped on and crushed to death under the feet. There was no place to fall; so if one falls, many would fall on him. I saw someone who was so crushed that his organs had spilled out of his body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Najid stressed that \u201cIt was Saudi Arabia\u2019s fault; they caused this tragedy by blocking the ways. They also did nothing to save usfor 3-4 hours.If there was urgent medical care, the number of victims could\u2019ve been greatly decreased.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eyewitness and one of the survivors of the accident by the name of Haj Hamid Shaker Nijad explains \u00a0 In the worst hajj disaster in a quarter century, two huge waves of pilgrims converged Thursday on a street near a religious site in Mina, and around 2,000 people were crushed, while so many other &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-saudi-arabia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mina disaster eyewitness: Saudis did nothing to save us for couple of hours! 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