1.27 lakh Bangladeshis pilgrims for Hajj 2017

A total of 1 lakh and 27 thousand Bangladeshis are expected to perform Hajj in the year of 2017.

A high-up official of ministry of Religious Affairs confirmed the matter to the Jagonews24.com on Saturday.

According to source, the pre-hajj registration might be started from the first week of December. The pre-registered people who couldn’t perform the hajj, they will get priority to perform hajj first.  Around 40 thousand pilgrims will get this type of priority.

In the management of government and non-government, a total of 1 lakh and 1 thousand eighty nine Bangladeshis performed their hajj in this year.

On August 4, first hajj flight left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia and the flight of September 6 was the last flight of the hajj.