Haj 2017 concludes

The Haj 2017 came to a successful end with the arrival of the last chartered flight carrying 446 Haj pilgrims at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.

Haj House officials said that almost 6,347 pilgrims including 3445 from Telangana, 2096 from Andhra Pradesh and 806 from Karnataka had left Hyderabad through 15 chartered Haj Flights from August 16 onwards till August 22. In the return journey 6332 pilgrims of Hyderabad



Embarkation Point arrived back. Similarly, 43 more pilgrims from Telangana had undertaken the sacred journey from Mumbai, who will arrive on October 3.

About 13 pilgrims passed away during Haj this time including nine from Telangana and two each from AP and Karnataka. Two pilgrims who were admitted in the hospital were discharged and efforts are on to bring them back by tomorrow by a scheduled flight.