VIDEO: Incredible time-lapse shows influx of Hajj pilgrims on Jamarat Bridge

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Saudi videographer Yasser Bikhsh posted a time-lapse video on Twitter showing the overwhelming influx of pilgrims to the Jamarat Bridge on Tuesday.

The enormous Jamaraat Bridge has in the past few days embraced more than 2 million pilgrims in the largest annual gathering in the world.

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300,000 pilgrims cross the bridge every hour, according to Saudi Sabq online newspaper.

The bride was built in 1963 then the kingdom decided to rebuild it in 2006 considering that the number of pilgrims doubled by more than seven times.

Around 11,000 people worked to execute this massive project which was completed in three years.

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