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Saudi Arabia deployed large numbers of security reinforcements as pilgrims performed the final rituals of a hajj marred by double tragedy, with the death toll from a stampede rising to 769. The kingdom's leaders have ordered an inquiry into the disaster -- the deadliest to strike the annual Muslim pilgrimage in a quarter-century -- and a "revision" of its organisation, with the deaths raising tensions with regional rival Iran as well. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demanded Saudi Arabia apologise on Sunday for the stampede.

 

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