31. Nearby in a small canvas tent, several Pakistani police surrounded by sandbags kept watch. 32. Nearby in a small canvas tent several Pakistani police surrounded by sandbags keep watch. 33. On Friday, participates settled into hundreds of beige canvas tents at a soccer field. 34. On Thursday, Saudi soldiers and civil defense authorities helped pilgrims set up new canvas tents, using mostly steel poles instead of the wooden poles used earlier. 35. On Wednesday, scorched wooden tent poles and charred canvas littered the area of what was once an overcrowded encampment of tens of thousands of canvas tents. 36. On Tuesday, a fire tore through the overcrowded encampment of canvas tents on the plain of Mina, where the pilgrims typically rest before ascending Arafat. 37. Scorched wooden tent poles and charred canvas Wednesday littered the area of what was once an overcrowded encampment of tens of thousands of canvas tents. 38. Some children were afraid of the cone-shaped, canvas winter tents. 39. The canvas tents, some of them held up by wood framing, were pitched close together and were of a flammable material, the witnesses said. 40. The canvas tent then reverberated with the sounds of monks chanting scriptures. |