The General Directorate of Passports announced that 1,626,500 pilgrims have arrived through all the Kingdom’s air, land, and sea ports during this year’s Hajj season of 1444 AH, as of the end of Friday, June 23.

The Passports Directorate indicated that the number of pilgrims arriving from outside the Kingdom through air ports was 1,559,053 pilgrims, including 240,137 beneficiaries of the “Makkah Route Initiative”.

The number of arrivals through land ports was 60,617 pilgrims, while the number of arrivals through sea ports was 6,830 pilgrims, reports SPA.

Source: Bahrain News Agency