Another Hajj Tragedy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 25, 2015

Hundreds of people died during a stampede during the Hajj pilgrimage near Mecca -- this just weeks after a crane collapse at the Grand Mosque in Mecca killed more than 100 people.

Mustafa Hameed, a journalist who writes for Foreign Policy, ABC News and Vice, and Brian Murphy, Washington Post staff writer, discuss the latest incident and looks at the infrastructure in and around Mecca, which Hameed says is wholly inadequate and unable to handle the huge numbers of pilgrims who flock to the area each year.

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