According to the police, the three persons who were on the track got run over by the Kannur Express, resulting in their instantaneous death.
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Haj pilgrimage: Saudi Arabia lifts restrictions on number, age limit, after three years
Vartha Bharati | 10-01-2023 | 10:57:00 IST
Riyadh: After imposition of restrictions for three years to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, Saudi Arabia will not limit the number of pilgrims for this year's Haj, Tawfiq Al Rabiah, Minister of Haj and Umrah, has said.
Addressing reporters in Riyadh on Monday, Al Rabiah said that the age limit too will not be imposed on the pilgrims, whose number will return to what it was prior to the pandemic outbreak, reports Khaleej Times.
The pilgrimage, which is one of the five pillars of Islam and which all able-bodied Muslims with the means are required to perform at least once, is scheduled for June.
About 2.5 million people took part in the rituals in 2019, but in the next two years, the number of pilgrims was cut down drastically due to Covid-19.
Nearly 900,000 pilgrims – including about 780,000 pilgrims from abroad – were welcomed to Makkah and Madinah in 2022.
The rules were set down last year that the pilgrims had to be under 65 years of age, necessarily have been vaccinated against Covid-19 and also present a negative test against the pandemic.
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Three persons run over by train in Bengaluru
25-04-2024 ¦ 25-04-2024 IST
Bengaluru: Three people were killed when they were run over by a train near Byappanahalli railway station, police said on Thursday.
Two of them have been identified as Shashi Kumar and Lokesh from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, but the identity of the third victim could not be ascertained immediately, police said.
Lokesh was a cab driver and Shashi Kumar had recently come to the city in search of a livelihood.
