More than 20,000 Yemenis leave for Mecca [Archives:2004/708/Local News]

Twenty-two thousand Yemeni citizens have this year headed for the holy land in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia perform the pilgrimage.
Agencies specialized in organisation of travel and residence of pilgrims operating in Yemen in cooperation with the ministry of Endowments and Guidance have finished arrangements and procedures concerning the care for the pilgrims.
Press reports have mentioned earlier that a number of Yemeni pilgrims have faced some difficulties at one of the Yemeni-Saudi border crossings and have been solved and that those reports attributed those hindrances to the recent tension that happened between the two countries.
It is worth mentioning that the number of Muslim pilgrims from all over the world has this year reached around two millions.
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