As per the new casualty report, 58 deceased belonged to Egypt. According to an Arab diplomat who provided a breakdown showed that of 658 Egyptians pilgrims who died, 630 were unregistered.
About 10 countries have reported 1,081 deaths during the pilgrimage, as per The Guardian.
The national meteorological centre reported a high of 51.8C (125F) this week at the Grand Mosque in Makkah.
A Saudi study published last month said temperatures in the area were rising by 0.4C each decade.
“People were tired after being chased by security forces before Arafat day. They were exhausted,” one Arab diplomat said about Saturday’s day-long outdoor prayers that marked the climax of the hajj.
The diplomat said the main cause of death among Egyptian pilgrims was the heat, which triggered complications related to high blood pressure and other problems.
Egyptian officials were visiting hospitals to obtain information and help Egyptian pilgrims receive medical care, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
It said, “However, there are large numbers of Egyptian citizens who are not registered in hajj databases, which requires double the effort and a longer time to search for missing persons and find their relatives.”
Egypt’s president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has ordered that a “crisis cell” headed by the prime minister follow up on the deaths of the country’s pilgrims.
Sisi stressed “the need for immediate coordination with the Saudi authorities to facilitate receiving the bodies of the deceased and streamline the process”, said a statement from his office.
Out of about 150,000 pilgrims, Pakistan had so far recorded 58 deaths, a diplomat said. “I think given the number of people, given the weather, this is just natural,” the diplomat said.
Indonesia, which had about 240,000 pilgrims, had raised its death toll to 183, its religious affairs ministry said, compared with 313 deaths recorded last year.
Deaths have also been confirmed by Malaysia, India, Jordan, Iran, Senegal, Tunisia, Sudan and Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. In many cases, authorities have not specified the cause.
Saudi Arabia has not provided information on deaths, though it reported more than 2,700 cases of “heat exhaustion” on Sunday alone.
Earlier, Hajj Mission Director General (DG) Abdul Wahab Soomro detailed that nine Pakistanis died in Mushaira, four in Mina, three in Arafat and two in Muzdalifah on June 18. He maintained that 20 Pakistani pilgrims died in Makkah and six in Madinah.
"Due to a temperature of 50°C, this was a tough Hajj," the official said.
He dismissed social media claims of leaving the pilgrims "helpless". He said, "We trust the Saudi government's information and we confirm it ourselves as well, whenever there's a death. We are informed."
