Alhaji Alhassan Kuku, 70, who was part of Ghanaian pilgrims in Arafah last Sunday, has died, the Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana (PAOG) has announced in a statement issued on Wednesday September 14.
The statement signed by Mohammed Amin Lamptey, Deputy Communications Director of PAOG, said the head of the medical team, Dr Abdul Samad Suleman, noted that the cause of death was unknown because the late Alhaji Kuku was brought to the Ghana Clinic in Mina already dead but he suspected hypoglycaemia as the cause of death.
“ … The body was successfully buried in Makkah around 7pm Saudi Arabia time, just after Maghrib prayers. The late Alhaji Kuku came to perform the Hajj this year with three male relatives including a nephew [and] hailed from Zabarama Line, a suburb of Accra,” the statement said.
It added: “Alhaji Manaf, the CEO of Ansarr Hajj Agency who facilitated the travelling processes of the late Alhaji Kuku, duly informed the family members and appointed one of them among those here in Makkah for the burial activities.”
The PAOG expressed its deepest condolences to the family members of the deceased saying: “May Allah sympathise with him and grant him Jannat Firdaws (The highest Paradise).”
Alhaji Kuku was the first Ghanaian to die in this year’s hajj pilgrimage.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
