Every year hundreds die during the stoning of the devil ritual during Hajj, because of the lack of crowd control and planning...
Finally, the Saudi's brought in a team of German researchers to design and implement a new bridge along with other methods of crowd control...
The new bridge we read...
will have four different levels not counting the ground level. The planned construction will be larger than Berlin's central train station, with emergency exit tunnels, helicopter landing pads and a conveyor belt by which to remove the falling pebbles. Once completed, the bridge will hold as many as 5 million pilgrims. Via Der Spiegel
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