Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- First Hajj pilgrims from Uzbekistan returned to Tashkent. An Uzbekistan Airways plane, which arrived from Jeddah with the first 245 pilgrims on board, landed on 14 July at 21:50 local time at Tashkent International Airport.

The pilgrims were met in an organized manner in the arrivals area of the capital’s airport on special buses that delivered them to the Novza mosque. The Muslim Board of Uzbekistan also recommended that the relatives of the pilgrims not come to the airport in order to avoid a collapse in the terminal and on the forecourt, but to meet their relatives at the mosque.

In total, 45 flights from Jeddah to Tashkent, Namangan, Karshi, Samarkand, Bukhara, Urgench and Nukus are scheduled from 14 to 31 July.