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Saudi Arabia announces project to utilise animals sacrificed at religious festival

21/02/2002

More than two million animals (mainly sheep) will be sacrificed this Friday (February 22, 2002) by pilgrims offering the final rites of Hajj.

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and his government announced a special project for the utilisation of sacrificial animals in co-ordination with the Islamic Development Bank and the Al-Rajhi Banking & Investment Co. of Saudi Arabia.

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