Mali Facebook page set up to find missing pilgrims

A Malian woman has set up a Facebook page to help find some 200 people from Mali who are still missing after last month’s Hajj pilgrimage crush. Nabou Traore told the BBC that not enough was being done to find the missing Malians in Saudi Arabia. People have been sharing their pictures of relatives on […]

A Malian woman has set up a Facebook page to help find some 200 people from Mali who are still missing after last month’s Hajj pilgrimage crush.
Nabou Traore told the BBC that not enough was being done to find the missing Malians in Saudi Arabia.
People have been sharing their pictures of relatives on the social media page whom they have not heard from, as well as unidentified people in hospital.
Officials have confirmed that 60 Malian pilgrims died in the stampede.
Ms Traore, who is a Malian based in France, decided to set up the page Les Maliens de La Bousculade de Mina (Malians of the Mina crush) after noticing several posts on her own Facebook page about the stampede.
The page now has more than 2,800 members.
Some of the pictures are of unidentified unconscious patients, other posts announce the confirmation of a relative’s death.