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A security officer monitors the crowd situation at the command and control operation center in Mina near Saudi Arabia's holy Muslim city of Makkah on September 25, 2015. AFP
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A Saudi investigation into the worst disaster in the history of the haj pilgrimage is yet to end, official media reported Monday, more than three weeks after a stampede killed 1,791 people.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef "was reassured of the progress of the ongoing investigation", the Saudi Press Agency said, in a rare update after he met on Sunday night with the investigative committee.
"He directed the members of the committee to continue the efforts exerted to come to the reasons behind the accident," SPA said.
Mohammed is interior minister and chairs the Saudi haj committee.
He ordered the probe immediately after the September 24 disaster during a stoning ritual at Mina, just outside the holy city of Mecca.
Saudi Arabia issued a death toll of 769 two days after the incident but has given no further tally or details of the casualties.
Data from foreign officials in more than 30 countries produced the toll of 1,791.
Pilgrims blamed the stampede on police road closures and poor management of the flow of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in searing temperatures.
Saudi officials, speaking immediately after the disaster, blamed pilgrims themselves for not following rules.
The results of the probe will be presented to King Salman.
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