At least 87 killed by falling crane at Grand Mosque in Mecca

At least 87 people were killed when a crane toppled over at Mecca's Grand Mosque on Friday, Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence head said, less than two weeks before Islam's annual haj pilgrimage. General Suleiman al-Amr, director general of the Civil Defence Authority, told al-Ikhbariya television 183 people were injured. A statement by a spokesman for the administration of the mosques in Mecca and Medina said the crane smashed into the part of the Grand Mosque where worshippers circumambulate the Kaa