Dozens of people were reported killed today in a stampede during a symbolic stoning ritual at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Government officials said the number of people killed was unknown, but one unnamed medical source told Reuters more than 100 were dead. "It is more than 100," said the medic in Mena, outside Mecca. Reuters earlier said its journalists counted at least 50 bodies lined up on the ground and covered in white shrouds. The stampede, like others in the past, happened during the stone-throwing ritual in which the pilgrims stone a symbolic devil.

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