Qa'dah 22, 1431/Oct 30, 2010, SPA -- The Minister of Hajj Dr. Fouad Abdulsalam Al-Farisi said today that the Ministry of Hajj has been organizing for the fifth consecutive year, the Workshop on Sending Pilgrims Groups to Jamarat Bridge to study new developments in conformity with construction of new facilities at the Bridge. He also stressed that the Government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz, has prepared the Bridge properly to enable pilgrims to perform their Hajj rituals smoothly and easily. In a press statement after inaugurating the Workshop here today , Dr. Al-Farisi expected that the number of pilgrims coming from abroad this year ranges between 1.6 million and 1.75 million pilgrims, and from inside the Kingdom between 200,000 and 250,000 pilgrims.
