KSA's Ministry of Interior today said nearly 1,100 photos had been distributed to foreign diplomats to help identify their nationals who had passed away in this year’s Hajj pilgrimage.
The ministry addressed claims that all 1,100 photos are of people from the Mina stampede, noting that the pictures are of people who passed away over the duration of the entire event, and not
just from the disaster in Mina. "The death toll for the Mina tragedy on
September 24th remains 769 people, with another 934 injured," it said in a statement.
Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour al-Turki said
the pictures also include people who died of natural causes, including
foreign residents who performed the pilgrimage without the legal
permits, as well as laborers from South Asia who choose to work in Saudi
Arabia in order to perform the pilgrimage. Major General Al-Turki added
that the list also includes unidentified victims from the September 11
crane accident over the Grand Mosque in Makkah.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs of Pakistan separately reported that 52 pilgrims had passed away as a result of the Mina incident as of 30 September. Of these 19 had been verified by the Saudi authorities, while details of the others were contributed by eyewitnesses. A list is available here.
The death toll for the Bangladesh Hajj season stands at 102 for all causes as at 30 September. Of these, 95 passed away in Makkah. Flights back to Bangladesh have begun, with 10,996 pilgrims already back in the country. Return flights began on 28 September, 2015, and the last return flight from the Hajj will be on 28 October.
(Update of 1 October 2015: the Haj Committee of India said that 51 pilgrims had passed away as a result of the Mina stampede.)