The Washington Post: A deadly stampede shows the danger of the hajj
The influential US newspaper quoted Professor Dirk Helbing in the article on the recent stampede near Mecca.
external pageThe article was published in the Washington Post in September 2015.
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"As Dirk Helbing, a German academic who studies crowds and panic, put it after visiting in 2006, Mecca is 'the biggest pedestrian problem in the world.'," The Washington Post wrote. Over the past hundred years, technological and economic changes have deeply affected how people undertake the hajj. Generally, these changes have made things saferr. "However, despite all these positive changes, a remarkable number of people still die making the pilgrimage," The Washington Post commented.