Alhaji Abdullahi Mukhtar, Commissioner of Operations, National Hajj Commission, has announced that two Nigerian pilgrims have died so far during this year’s hajj in Saudi
Arabia.
Mukhtar told newsmen on Monday in Abuja that one of the deceased from Nasarawa, was knocked down by a car in Medina.
He said that the other pilgrim from Borno died in Nigeria while boarding plane to the holy land.
The commissioner who described the incident as “sad”, however, said it was “the will of Allah who giveth and taketh”