Mr. Jeff Rooker (Birmingham, Perry Barr)
I wish to raise in this brief Adjournment debate a subject which is probably the saddest constituency case that I have raised in my 17 years’ membership of the House.
On 2 July there was a widely reported disaster at Mecca involving religious pilgrims in a pedestrian tunnel. The first reports that I saw—I have since checked them—indicated that up to 100 people had died, but this figure climbed within a day to well over 1,400.