The death toll in a crush at the annual hajj pilgrimage outside Mecca rises to 769, Saudi Arabia said as arch-rival Iran said Saudi officials should be tried in an international court for what it called a crime.

A total of 98 Bangladeshis are still missing after the stampede at Mecca during hajj that killed over 700 pilgrims.

Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric, the grand mufti, has said Thursday's stampede that killed more than 700 people at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca was beyond human control.

Muhammad Bilal, a Bangladeshi pilgrim, was sitting at the pavement near Mina Al-Jisr Hospital hoping to have a last look at his wife who died in the stampede.

Blame shifted towards Saudi authorities on Friday after a stampede at the Hajj killed at least 717 people, in the worst tragedy to strike the annual Muslim pilgrimage in a quarter-century.

Another Bangladeshi woman has been found among the 717 pilgrims who died during a hajj ritual on the outskirts of Makka in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman orders a safety review for the Hajj pilgrimage after at least 717 people died in a stampede near the holy city of Mecca.

The deadly stampede at the hajj in Saudi Arabia on Thursday that killed at least 717 people is just the latest tragedy to strike the pilgrimage.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina send messages to King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia expressing deep sorrow and shock at the loss of lives in a stampede at Mina during Hajj.

717 people taking part in the Hajj pilgrimage are killed in a stampede near the Islamic holy city of Mecca, officials in Saudi Arabia say.

A suicide bomber strikes a mosque in Yemen's rebel-held capital in an attack targeting Shiites killing at least 25 people and wounded dozens during Eid prayers.

Two million Muslims from around the world arrived in the Mina valley outside the holy city of Makkah.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across the globe begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the world.

Two Bangladeshis were killed and several others injured in a mortar attack launched from Yemen on a hospital in Saudi Arabia early today.

A Sylhet court fixes September 22 for starting charge framing hearing in the 13-year-old boy Rajon killing case.

Saudi Hajj Minister Bandar Hajjar announces that there will be no quota system on any country for sending pilgrims from next year.

Jumaa Ibrahim and his wife Hasnaa Karam, a Syrian couple in their early 60s, arrived in Mecca on Friday, and headed straight to Islam's holiest site, the cube-shaped Kaaba.

A Bangladeshi has been identified among 107 victims, who died in Mecca crane collapse on Friday.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman says the results of an investigation into why a crane collapsed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, killing at least 107 people, will be made public.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directs Bangladesh mission in Riyadh to take immediate steps to provide all necessary assistance to the Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims injured in Mecca crane collapse.