Mecca crane collapse
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disaster which occurred on 11 September 2015
Key facts
- Date
- 11 September 2015 ; 10 years ago ( 2015-09-11 )
- Time
- ~17:10 AST
- Location
- Masjid al-Haram , Mecca , Saudi Arabia
- Cause
- Crane collapse
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- structural failure
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Located in
- Mecca
- Location
- Al-Masjid Al-Haram
- Image
- Mataaf expansion 2014.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 111
- Number of injured
- 394
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- point in time
- 2015-09-11
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
A crawler crane collapsed over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, around 5:10 p.m. on 11 September 2015, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others. The city was preparing for the Hajj pilgrimage. The collapse has been cited as the deadliest crane collapse in history, with the previous most deadly incident being the collapse of a construction crane in New York City in 2008, killing seven people.
Following the collapses, the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud, ordered a halt to the awarding of contracts to the Saudi Binladin Group, the primary contractor of construction works in the holy city. The incident was found to have resulted from a combination of human error and forceful winds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mecca crane collapse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.