At least 107 people were killed and 238 injured after a crane collapsed on to the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Makkah.
At least 107 people were killed and 238 injured after a crane collapsed on to the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Makkah.
The civil defence agency said on Twitter that emergency teams were sent to the scene after a crane fell at the holy city of Makkah's Grand Mosque.
Risk services company says says this year's Haj is likely to be among the hottest in the past two decades.
184 injured as storm causes huge crane to crash into Grand Mosque.
So far, the group's presence in the kingdom appears to be in a low-level stage, but it has claimed four significant bombings since May, one of them in neighbouring Kuwait.
For two decades, Harvard Law School has had its own Islamic legal studies program, established with support from the Saudi king.
The Saudi embassy has dismissed the charges against the diplomat as "completely false" and "contrary to facts in our possession"
The latest victims were two expatriates aged 44 and 57 and a 67-year-old Saudi national, the health ministry said.
The Al Sabeen maternity and children's hospital said it had been damaged and appealed to international organisations to help evacuate them.
The increase in foreign ownership from the present level of up to 75 per cent for retail and wholesale businesses comes after tumbling oil prices have slashed Saudi revenues.