More than 345 Muslim pilgrims were trampled to death and some 300 wounded outside the Saudi holy city of Mecca on Thursday, Saudi Health Minister Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Maneh told reporters.

Following is a chronology of major deadly stampedes last year.

Jan. 22: About 500 pilgrims are wounded, mostly elders, near the stoning site during their hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Jan. 25: Over 300 people, most of them women and children, are killed and hundreds of others injured in a stampede at Mandra Devi temple on a hillock in Satara district in Maharastra state in southwest India.

July 29: 16 people are dead and about 20 others wounded in a stampede after rumors spread in suburban Mumbai in India's state of Maharastra that heavy rains have burst a dam.

Aug. 31: At least 965 people are killed and 465 others injured after a fake suicide bomb alarm triggers a stampede on a bridge over the Tigris river in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

Dec. 18: At least 43 people are dead and about 50 others wounded when they gather to get food coupons in a flood relief center of Chennai, capital of south India's Tamil Nadu state.

Source: Xinhua