Pilgrim creates panic aboard an aircraft bound for Mecca

A 90-year-old man, Ramat Isseini, will not accomplish the fifth pillar of Islam this year.

His trip to the Holy Land ended on September 10, 2015 at Garoua International Airport.

Sick and tired, the old Pilgrim endeavoured to find himself in the aircraft despite the refusal of the medical team at the airport. Once inside, Ramat Isseini, from the Far North, became stiff and the other passengers thought he was dead.

“He was hardly breathing. There was no gesture and some pilgrims began to cry. The driver was forced to call emergency medical doctors to get him out of the aircraft,” recounted one of the pilgrims.

Evacuated from the aircraft, Ramat Isseini was immediately taken to the Garoua regional hospital staff by Asecna where he was put under intensive care.

Ramat is not the only one in this situation, many insist despite their State of health, to travel to Mecca. "We believe that when a Muslim dies in Mecca, he is directly received into paradise. This belief has made it in such a way some patients are leaving their country to go die in the Holy Land," noted a teacher in a Koranic school.

They are many who die in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take the "way to paradise " as they believe.