Iran accused Saudi Arabia of safety errors after at least 15 of its citizens died Thursday in a stampede that killed several hundred people during the annual hajj pilgrimage, AFP reports.
The head of Iran's hajj organisation, Said Ohadi, said that for "unknown reasons" a path had been closed off near the scene of the symbolic stoning of the devil ritual where the accident later took place. "This caused this tragic incident," he said on Iranian state television.