At least 107 people have been killed and 238 others injured after a crane collapsed in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, Saudi Arabia’s civil defence authority says.
Pictures posted online showed queues of Saudi men volunteering to donate blood for those injured in Friday’s crash.
Al Jazeera’s Hasan Patel, reporting from Mecca, said witnesses told him that a crane fell on the third floor of the Grand Mosque at around 5.30pm on Friday.
He said the mosque was packed even though the incident happened before the 6.30pm prayer.
