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Crane collapse kills 107 at Grand Mosque in Mecca

tennmiketennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member
on Sept. 11, 2015. The article doesn't say it, but the crane was owned by a company belonging to Osama bin Laden and his family that is based in Germany. Karma?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/12/middleeast/saudi-arabia-mecca-crane-collapse/index.html

(CNN)A construction crane crashed through the roof of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, killing 107 people and casting a grim shadow on a yearly pilgrimage that draws millions to Saudi Arabia.

At least 238 others suffered injuries when a powerful storm toppled the crane, according to the nation's civil defense authorities.

The crane fell 10 days before the start of the Hajj, an annual pilgrimage expected to bring 2 million people to Mecca.

The mosque is the largest in the world and surrounds Islam's holiest site known as the Kaaba.
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