As many as 1.5 million external and domestic pilgrims are expected to perform Haj this year, the Saudi Central Haj Committee told.
The municipality informed that more than 23,000 workers would be doing the cleaning of Makkah and the holy sites.
The first batches of pilgrims for this year’s Haj arrived on Thursday in Jeddah and Madinah from the Indian subcontinent, Saudi Gazette reported.
The first flight was from New Delhi that landed at Prince Muhammad International Airport in Madinah.
It was followed by a flight from Pakistan while the first
