A fire broke out in a building in Aziziyah district in the holy city of Makkah in the early hours of Tuesday. The Building is accomadation 391 Indian Haj Pilgrims.
According to the sources there are no casualties and no one was hurt. It is believed that one of the mobile chargers of one of the pilgrims has short circuited causing the Fire. As a precaution the authorities have evacuated the building. The building had the pilgrims from Northeastern states, mostly from Assam.
The first batches from all over the country have started their Haj pilgrimage this week, and second phase of pilgrims will be starting their journey by next week. The Haj starts on August 23 this year and shall conclude with Bakrid on September 2.
Meanwhile a group of Haj pilgrims have started a dharna against an apparently unjustified omission of their names from the list of visitors to Mecca in Ujjain.
According to the news reports Shabbir Hussain, his wife and mother were struck off from the list just a day before they were to undertake the journey, without being given any reason. Baffled over the unjust decision, he along with his family sat in a dharna on Monday morning at the office of Aamil Sahab and said would continue the dharna until any responsible person gave him an appropriate reason for cancellation of permission of his pilgrimage.
Shabbir, his wife Rashida and mother Jaheda had applied for Hajj in the local office. Following the completion of procedures, their names were confirmed by a Mumbai based travel agency ‘Faiz Hussaini’ and were asked to deposit the money. He, in installments, deposited a sum of Rs 6 lakh to the agency. But a few days later, a message was received by Shabbir about cancellation of their journey without any reason.
He then went to the office of Aamil Sahab at Burhani Hall, Gaunsa Darwaza in vain. Adamant to know the reason, he sat in a dharna in the office and refused to budge until the reason was known.
