The second Haj flight of the season carrying 233 pilgrims and a Khadim ul Hujjaj took off just 24 minutes behind schedule at 18.24 hours on Thursday from the Raja Bhoj International Airport of the state capital. The oldest pilgrim left for pilgrimage in the second flight was 91 years old while the youngest pilgrim was 15 years old.
Of the 233 pilgrims who left for the pilgrimage on Thursday there were 124 males, 109 females besides a Khadim ul Hujjaj Syed Rizwan Ali
from Bhopal.
The oldest pilgrim left for pilgrimage in the second flight for Haj 2014 was 91-year-old Maqbul Uddin from Ashok Nagar while the youngest pilgrim was 15 year old Mohamed Sadiq Khan from Bhopal.
The 233 pilgrims that left for pilgrimage are from 19 places with maximum 148 pilgrims from Bhopal followed by 13 from Sehore, 11 from Raisen, 9 from Shajapur, 8 from Jabalpur, 6 from Shahdol, 4 each from Agar Malwa, Betul, Chhtarpur, Satna and Shivpuri while 2 pilgrims each were from Ashok Nagar, Guna, Narsinghpur, Rewa, Sheopur Kalan, Tikamgarh and Vidisha.
The second flight for Haj 2014 from the state capital took off almost on time.
Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh State Haj Committee (MPSHC) chairman Haji Inayat Hussain in a statement informed that the preparations for transit point of Haj Pilgrims from the second embarkation point of the state in Al Shifa National Hospital have been started at the Al Shifa National Hospital.
Hussain informed that the transit point at Al Shifa National Hospital, Al Shifa National Hospital would start from functioning from Friday.
Notably, in the second phase seven flights carrying 240 pilgrims each would depart from Indore embarkation point of the state from September 22 and the last flight from the state would be on September 28.