Three Nigerian pilgrims for this year’s Hajj exercise at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia risk execution over their alleged involvement in drug trafficking. The pilgrims from Kwara State, whose identities were being protected, were arrested for alleged possession of substance suspected to be cocaine. Drug trafficking offence carries death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
A stampede during one
of the last rituals of the Hajj -- the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca --
has killed more than 700 people and injured nearly 900 others in Saudi Arabia.