A huge construction crane buffeted by strong winds collapsed and crashed onto the Grand Mosque yesterday, Friday, September 11 killing as many as 107 worshipers only days before the start of the annual Muslim pilgrimage, the Saudi Arabia Civil Defense reports.
The Civil Defense said on Twitter that as many as 238 people had been injured.
Photos sent by Twitter from the scene show numerous blood-covered bodies strewn on a marble floor under the arm of a large crane.
Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Mansouri, spokesman for the Presidency of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet Mosque, blamed the accident on a “strong sandstorm, winds and torrential rains,” the official Saudi Press Agency reports.
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