Twenty-eight Indians, including 16 women, were among 362 pilgrims killed in the stampede during the symbolic stoning ritual during Haj in Mina near Mecca on Thursday.
Fifteen Indian devotees were also injured in the tragedy and of them eight have been discharged from various hospitals, Indian Consul General Ausaf Sayeed said over phone from Mina.
Among the dead, 12 were from Uttar Pradesh, three each from Maharashtra, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, two each from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and one from West Bengal, he said.
Two Indians based in Saudi Arabia were also among those killed.
The Indian Haj Committee will give a compensation of Rs 3 lakh each to the families of 26 deceased who had gone there through it, the committee chairman Tanveer Ahmed told PTI over phone from Mina.
Sayeed said efforts were on to take consent of kin of those killed for early burial of the deceased in Mecca.
He said teams of Indian Hajis and Indian officials had been formed to visit the relatives of those killed to offer assistance to them besides condolences.
A control room had been set up in the Mina camp for the convenience of the pilgrims. Ten Branch dispensaries and the main hospital in Mecca had been put on alert.
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