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One lakh security personnel have been deployed to oversee the annual hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in In Saudi Arabia.
Interior Ministry spokesperson Major General Mansour al-Turki said that among those securing the massive crowds during hajj are members of an elite counter-terrorism unit, traffic police and emergency civil defense personnel. They are being supported by additional troops from the army and national guard. Hajj is expected to fall next week .