Death toll from Grand Mosque crane collapse climbs to 111

Jumaa Ibrahim and his wife, Hasnaa Karam, a Syrian couple in their early 60s, arrived in Mecca on Friday, and headed straight to Islam's holiest site, the cube-shaped Kaaba.

Suddenly, a loud boom echoed. The kingdom's Civil Defense said unusually strong winds tipped over one of the massive cranes around the Grand Mosque that houses the Kaaba. The crane crashed through part of the mosque's roof and upper floors, sending concrete slabs crashing down.

"I saw a head, legs, blood, dead people," Karam said on Sunday, interviewed at her husband's bedside in Mecca's Al-Noor Specialist Hospital. She escaped injury, but her husband was among the hundreds injured, his leg broken in two places.