In Saudi Arabia, Muslim pilgrims attending the annual hajj set off a stampede that killed at least 345 people. Almost 300 more were injured. The deaths occurred during the final day of the ritual stoning of the devil in the Mina desert, in which pilgrims throw stones at pillars to purge themselves of sin. The deaths come a week after the collapse of a pilgrim hotel that killed 76 people. Thursday’s stampede caused the highest death toll since over 1400 people died in a stampede in a Mecca tunnel in 1990. Over 240 were killed in another stampede in 2004.