Lightning strikes Grand Mosque's Binladin group construction crane on 9/11, 87 dead

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Martinus

September 13, 2015, 01:51:54 AM
QuoteMecca crane collapse: 87 dead at Grand Mosque - as it happened

We're bringing this live blog to a close tonight, as it is after midnight in Mecca.

Here's how things stand at the moment:

A construction crane has crashed through the eastern side of Mecca's Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia, the holy building at the centre of the annual hajj pilgrimage
87 people are dead and 201 people are injured according to the Saudi civil defence authority's Twitter posts.
Extreme weather is the likely cause of the collapse, authorities said, with heavy rain, lightning strikes and high winds hitting the Muslim holy city on Friday, 10 days before the start of the hajj.
Reconstruction work to enlarge the Grand Mosque had been ongoing for the past two years and was expected to be largely completed before this year's pilgrimage, which begins on 22 September.
The construction work was being led by the construction giant Saudi Binladin Group, but it is not yet known which company the crane belonged to.
Saudi investigators are still ascertaining the identities of the dead and injured, but India said nine of its citizens were among the wounded.
Images from inside the mosque show an enormous crater in the mosque's stone floor, with pictures on social media of bodies covered in debris and blood stains on the tiles.
The governor of Mecca region, Prince Khaled al-Faisal, has ordered an investigation into the incident.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/sep/11/mecca-crane-crash-more-than-50-dead-at-grand-mosque-live

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The Brain

#1
September 13, 2015, 02:37:51 AM
 :(

Which poster will ragequit this time?
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alfred russel

#2
September 13, 2015, 09:21:21 AM
I hope Vile Wahhabist is okay.  :(
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The Brain

#3
September 13, 2015, 09:33:57 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on September 13, 2015, 09:21:21 AM
I hope Vile Wahhabist is okay.  :(

His friend got a black eye, a broken jaw and a couple of busted ribs. Not from the crane though.
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Jaron

#4
September 13, 2015, 12:43:59 PM
Lord have mercy.
Winner of THE grumbler point.

11B4V

#5
September 13, 2015, 01:03:18 PM Last Edit: September 13, 2015, 04:48:32 PM by 11B4V
The will of God be done.
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"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Darth Wagtaros

#6
September 13, 2015, 04:43:05 PM
The JEWS did it. :Joos
PDH!

11B4V

#8
September 13, 2015, 05:53:29 PM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Norgy

#9
September 13, 2015, 08:53:28 PM
You really are garbage.

11B4V

#10
September 13, 2015, 09:07:39 PM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Valmy

#11
September 13, 2015, 09:13:34 PM
Quote from: Norgy on September 13, 2015, 08:53:28 PM
You really are garbage.


Nothing personal but yeah this is not everybody's finest moment here. A bunch of guest workers got tragically killed. Woooo
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Valmy

#13
September 13, 2015, 09:17:33 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on September 13, 2015, 09:16:00 PM
What does "FO" stand for? :unsure:

Fuck Off.
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