Loved ones search for missing as hajj death toll passes 900

Friends and family searched for missing hajj pilgrims on Wednesday as the death toll at the annual rituals,which were carried out in scorching heat, surged past 900. An Arab diplomat said that the deaths among Egyptians alone had jumped to "at least 600", from more than 300 a day earlier, mostly from the unforgiving
heat. The diplomat later added that Egyptian officials in Saudi Arabia had
received "1,400 reports of missing pilgrims", including the 600 dead.