Millions of Muslims worldwide are heading to the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj pilgrimage.

The Saudi Arabia government has increased the quota of pilgrims from all the 178 registered countries with 950,000 pilgrims expected to arrive at Jeddah, 750,000 at Madinah and 100,000 by land and sea.

More than 675,ooo pilgrims have so far arrived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The General Directorate of Passports said in its daily statistics that 663,860 pilgrims arrived by air; 10,796 by land; and 487 by sea, an increase by 17% (98,387) pilgrims compared with the same period last year.

source: Alarabiya