125 degree heat kills hundreds
UPDATE: 1,000+ died
Westerners assume their air conditioning will save them from the climate crisis, but what happens when it stops working during a blackout?
Too hot for Hajj pilgrims trip to Mecca.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/18/hundreds-of-hajj-pilgrims-die-in-mecca-from-heat-related-illness
Two unnamed Arab diplomats told the Agence France-Presse news service that 323 people from Egypt alone had died, most because of heat-related illnesses. Egypt has not yet shared an official count, but other countries whose citizens flocked to the holy city of Mecca have been reporting tolls: at least 138 from Indonesia, 41 from Jordan and 35 from Tunisia.