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India’s External Affairs Ministry has informed that 21 Indian have died during Haj pilgrimage this year. An official press release said, out of 21, twenty deaths were due to natural causes and one person died in road accident.
It said, 19 of the deaths have occurred due to cardiac arrest while one person died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with respiratory failure.
The Ministry, which takes care of Haj pilgrims, said more than 40 per cent of Haj pilgrimage are above 60 years and 13.5 per cent above 70 years.
It said, the Ministry and Consulate General of India have taken several steps to provide good medical facilities free of cost for Haj pilgrims.
It also said a total of around one lakh 36,000 pilgrims were expected to take part in Haj 2015.