As many as 356,229 heads of sheep and 2,796 heads of camels and cows were slaughtered up to yesterday evening at the slaughterhouses of Mina within the framework of the Sacrificial Meat Utilization Project carried out under the supervision of the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB). Under the project, a source at the IDB said a contract was signed by the IDB for 648,000 heads of sheep for this year's Hajj season. He noted that the remaining heads of the sheep will be slaughtered within the next days.
